>>>>> " " == Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> writes:
> - rpciod() (the ernel thread) also bumps the refcount when starting
> and decrements it when exiting. but as a different module
> must initiate this using rpciod_up/rpciod_down this is again
> not needed. (except when a module does rpciod_up without a
> matching rpciod_down - but that a big bug anyway and we
> don't need to partially handle that using module refcounts).
There's another case which you appear to be ignoring: rpciod_down() is
interruptible and does not have to wait on the rpciod() thread to
complete.
Cheers,
Trond
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