Re: [PATCH RFC 1/4] Generic BUG handling.

From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Date: Thu Sep 28 2006 - 19:44:14 EST


Andrew Morton wrote:
What is the locking for these lists? I don't see much in here. It has
implications for code which wants to do BUG while holding that lock..

There's no locking. This is a direct copy of the original powerpc code. I assume, but haven't checked, that there's a lock to serialize module loading/unloading, so the insertion/deletion is all properly synchronized.

The only other user is traversal when actually handling a bug; if you're very unlucky this could happen while you're actually loading/unloading and you would see the list in an inconsistent state. I guess we could put a lock there, and trylock it on traversal; at least that would stop a concurrent modload/unload from getting in there while we're trying to walk the list.

Shouldn't this be u64? ;)

I'll get right on that. And perhaps it should be signed if people overshoot and introduce a negative number of BUGs.

J
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