From: Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com>
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>,
Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru>,
Jean Tourrilhes <jt@bougret.hpl.hp.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jgarzik@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] New module refcounting for net_proto_family
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 11:35:03 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.2.20030224112723.05a5e640@mail1.qualcomm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030224025907.A238F2C091@lists.samba.org>
At 05:01 PM 2/23/2003, Rusty Russell wrote:
>> >better know *exactly* what you are doing", even though the "try" is a
>> >bit of a misnomer.
>> Yeah, I think 'try' is definitely a misnomer in this case.
>> How about something like this ?
>
>No, I definitely want the name __try_module_get. Sure, it's a
>misnomer in one sense, which will hopefully scare off people looking
>for an easy way out. OTOH, it accurately reflects "you should be
>using try_module_get but you have special circumstances" more
>eloquently than any comment ever would. Especially since there are
>only a handful of places where it is appropriate.
>
>I think a CONFIG option for checking is overkill: better is to grep
>each kernel for __try_module_get() being added and make sure the damn
>thing doesn't spread 8)
Ok.
>+/* Sometimes we know we already have a refcount, and it's easier not
>+ to handle the error case (which only happens with rmmod --wait). */
>+static inline void __try_module_get(struct module *module)
>+{
>+ local_inc(&module->ref[get_cpu()].count);
>+ put_cpu();
>+}
I still think that __try is confusing and __module_get() would be more
appropriate name for that function. But I can live with __try_module_get() :)
I'll make new patch for net/socket.c as soon as yours goes in.
Thanks
Max
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-02-24 19:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-12-26 8:11 [PATCH/RFC] New module refcounting for net_proto_family Max Krasnyansky
2003-01-02 11:43 ` Max Krasnyansky
2003-01-03 8:24 ` David S. Miller
2003-01-20 3:22 ` Max Krasnyansky
2003-01-21 11:03 ` David S. Miller
2003-01-21 19:42 ` Max Krasnyansky
2003-01-21 19:36 ` David S. Miller
2003-02-07 9:48 ` David S. Miller
2003-02-07 23:34 ` Max Krasnyansky
2003-02-08 8:44 ` David S. Miller
2003-02-18 3:46 ` David S. Miller
2003-02-18 18:50 ` Max Krasnyansky
2003-02-18 21:09 ` Jean Tourrilhes
2003-02-19 3:54 ` Rusty Russell
2003-02-19 7:04 ` David S. Miller
2003-02-19 18:03 ` Max Krasnyansky
2003-02-19 20:31 ` Roman Zippel
2003-02-19 17:45 ` Max Krasnyansky
2003-02-20 1:21 ` Rusty Russell
2003-02-20 17:38 ` Max Krasnyansky
2003-02-21 0:30 ` Rusty Russell
2003-02-21 1:17 ` Max Krasnyansky
2003-02-21 8:45 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-02-21 17:44 ` Max Krasnyansky
2003-02-24 1:01 ` Rusty Russell
2003-02-24 19:35 ` Max Krasnyansky [this message]
2003-02-25 5:02 ` Rusty Russell
2003-02-26 20:21 ` Max Krasnyansky
2003-01-07 9:21 ` David S. Miller
2003-01-09 20:45 ` Max Krasnyansky
2003-01-09 23:53 ` David S. Miller
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-02-20 17:52 Max Krasnyansky
2002-12-19 23:08 Jean Tourrilhes
2002-12-19 23:23 ` Max Krasnyansky
2002-12-18 15:25 Max Krasnyansky
2002-12-19 16:05 ` Max Krasnyansky
2002-12-19 19:28 ` Alan Cox
2002-12-19 19:12 ` David S. Miller
2002-12-19 22:17 ` Max Krasnyansky
2002-12-21 6:54 ` David S. Miller
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