On 11/29/2011 12:31 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Tue, 2011-11-29 at 12:12 +0530, Deepthi Dharwar wrote: >> >> Yes, this could be problematic as there is small window for the >> race condition to occur . Otherwise we need to manually schedule >> it by running a kernel thread but this would definitely have a >> overhead and would be an overkill. > > Depends what this "window" is. IE. What are you trying to protect > yourself against ? What's the risk ? > > If it's just module unload, then stop_machine is probably your > friend :-) > > Cheers, > Ben. > > Yup, it is the module unload that I am worried about. Otherwise manually doing it using kernel thread would be an overkill -:( Regards, Deepthi _______________________________________________ linux-pm mailing list linux-pm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-pm
