Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:57:01 -0500 (EST) | From | Pavel Roskin <> | Subject | Re: binfmt_misc module gets stuck |
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Hi, Alexander!
> > I believe that kern_mount() and kern_umount() are remnants from the time > > when the binfmt_misc filesystem was mounted automatically by the kernel. > > Removing them preserves all functionality (I did check it) while allows > > unloading binfmt_misc if and only if the binfmt_misc filesystem is not > > used for any mounts. > > That's wrong - you are using that tree to store information (entries > you've defined), so the lifetime should be "there are mounts or there > are entries". Which is actually pretty easy to implement - see if > the following (completely untested) patch works for you. It should > give the following rules: > if you had defined some entries - they stay alive until you remove > them, mounted or not (i.e. umount /proc/sys/binfmt_misc && mount ... will > not destroy any state) > if there is no entries and fs is not mounted - you can rmmod.
It works as you describe it. I agree that your approach is better.
-- Regards, Pavel Roskin
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