Re: [PATCH] Remove stop_machine during module load v2

[Rusty Russell]

On Saturday 30 August 2008 18:09:00 Andi Kleen wrote:
> Remove stop_machine during module load v2
>
> module loading currently does a stop_machine on each module load to insert
> the module into the global module lists.  Especially on larger systems this
> can be quite expensive.
>
> It does that to handle concurrent lock lessmodule list readers
> like kallsyms.

Thanks, Andi!

Applied,
Rusty.
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