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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-01-05 19:03:39 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-01-05 19:03:39 -0800
commit0bbb2753584231db364b624bf8cf82551b94da7d (patch)
tree559c49330037fa4e2f5d231e06576f80dc49caaf /include/linux
parent0578c3b4d44c34e499e1fd5916ed6c63635b25cf (diff)
parent9e01892c4234070bbcf3a9f582514c8b91464375 (diff)
Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linus
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linus: module: convert to stop_machine_create/destroy. stop_machine: introduce stop_machine_create/destroy. parisc: fix module loading failure of large kernel modules module: fix module loading failure of large kernel modules for parisc module: fix warning of unused function when !CONFIG_PROC_FS kernel/module.c: compare symbol values when marking symbols as exported in /proc/kallsyms. remove CONFIG_KMOD
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/moduleloader.h3
-rw-r--r--include/linux/stop_machine.h22
2 files changed, 25 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/moduleloader.h b/include/linux/moduleloader.h
index eb103395748..c1f40c2f7ff 100644
--- a/include/linux/moduleloader.h
+++ b/include/linux/moduleloader.h
@@ -13,6 +13,9 @@ int module_frob_arch_sections(Elf_Ehdr *hdr,
char *secstrings,
struct module *mod);
+/* Additional bytes needed by arch in front of individual sections */
+unsigned int arch_mod_section_prepend(struct module *mod, unsigned int section);
+
/* Allocator used for allocating struct module, core sections and init
sections. Returns NULL on failure. */
void *module_alloc(unsigned long size);
diff --git a/include/linux/stop_machine.h b/include/linux/stop_machine.h
index 74d59a64136..baba3a23a81 100644
--- a/include/linux/stop_machine.h
+++ b/include/linux/stop_machine.h
@@ -35,6 +35,24 @@ int stop_machine(int (*fn)(void *), void *data, const struct cpumask *cpus);
* won't come or go while it's being called. Used by hotplug cpu.
*/
int __stop_machine(int (*fn)(void *), void *data, const struct cpumask *cpus);
+
+/**
+ * stop_machine_create: create all stop_machine threads
+ *
+ * Description: This causes all stop_machine threads to be created before
+ * stop_machine actually gets called. This can be used by subsystems that
+ * need a non failing stop_machine infrastructure.
+ */
+int stop_machine_create(void);
+
+/**
+ * stop_machine_destroy: destroy all stop_machine threads
+ *
+ * Description: This causes all stop_machine threads which were created with
+ * stop_machine_create to be destroyed again.
+ */
+void stop_machine_destroy(void);
+
#else
static inline int stop_machine(int (*fn)(void *), void *data,
@@ -46,5 +64,9 @@ static inline int stop_machine(int (*fn)(void *), void *data,
local_irq_enable();
return ret;
}
+
+static inline int stop_machine_create(void) { return 0; }
+static inline void stop_machine_destroy(void) { }
+
#endif /* CONFIG_SMP */
#endif /* _LINUX_STOP_MACHINE */