>>>>> "Benjamin" == Benjamin LaHaise <[email protected]> writes:
Benjamin> On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 03:23:20PM -0500, Alan Stern wrote:
>> You can't use RCU protection around code that may sleep. Whether
>> the code remains loaded in the kernel or is part of a removable
>> module doesn't enter into it.
Benjamin> A notifier callee should not be sleeping, if anything it
Benjamin> should be putting its work onto a workqueue and completing
Benjamin> it when it gets scheduled if it has to do something that
Benjamin> blocks.
There are cases where all the notifier client would want to do is
kmalloc(); sum_up_some_data(); copy_to_user(); kfree();
very often in the exit() path - doing that via a workqueue seems
overly complex.
Cheers,
Jes
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