18 Sep
2010
18 Sep
'10
11:11 a.m.
On Wednesday 15 September 2010 23:09:36 Sven Eckelmann wrote:
synchronize_rcu respective synchronize_net only waits for the rcu grace period to elapse and we may fail to finish the calls which were made to call_rcu in that time. In result the module could be unloaded during the execution of the RCU callbacks.
rcu_barrier[1] will now wait for all outstanding RCU callbacks to finish before continuing.
[1] Documentation/RCU/rcubarrier.txt
Applied in revision 1794.
Thanks, Marek