Messages in this thread | | | From | Rusty Russell <> | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH 5/8] module: add function to map address to containing module | Date | Tue, 22 Apr 2008 01:40:58 +1000 |
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On Monday 21 April 2008 22:34:39 Peter Oberparleiter wrote: > From: Peter Oberparleiter <peter.oberparleiter@de.ibm.com> > > module_address() maps an address to the module containing it in either > text or data section. Required by the gcov profiling infrastructure to > associate profiling data structures with modules.
Locking problem; this isn't safe. Note that we block preemption to traverse the module list. You could grab a reference, and fix up all the callers to put it once they're done?
Thanks, Rusty.
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