On Sat, Jul 11, 2015 at 11:51:53AM +0900, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote: > Hello, > > Shrinker API does not handle nicely unregister_shrinker() on a not-registered > ->shrinker. Looking at shrinker users, they all have to > (a) carry on some sort of a flag to make sure that "unregister_shrinker()" > will not blow up later > (b) be fishy (potentially can Oops) > (c) access private members `struct shrinker' (e.g. `shrink.list.next') Ayone who does that is broken. You just need to have clear init (with proper unwinding) and exit functions and order things properly. It works like most register/unregister calls and should stay that way. Maye you you should ty to explain what practical problem you're seeing to start with. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>