Re: [RFC PATCH 5/8] module: add function to map address to containing module

[Rusty Russell]

On Monday 21 April 2008 22:34:39 Peter Oberparleiter wrote:
> From: Peter Oberparleiter <peter.oberparleiter@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> 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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