From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 06:41:46 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: modules: remove modlist_lock
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.23-rc1~810
X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=24da1cbff9cfce50868c2dfdcda82a68ac5cb707;p=pandora-kernel.git

modules: remove modlist_lock

Now we always use stop_machine for module insertion or deletion, we no
longer need the modlist_lock: merely disabling preemption is sufficient to
block against list manipulation.  This avoids deadlock on OOPSen where we
can potentially grab the lock twice.

Bug: 8695
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Tobias Oed <tobiasoed@hotmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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