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Message-Id: <200809011702.00956.rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Date:	Mon, 1 Sep 2008 17:02:00 +1000
From:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
To:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
Cc:	paulmck@...ibm.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...l.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove stop_machine during module load

On Saturday 30 August 2008 05:17:34 Andi Kleen wrote:
> Remove stop_machine during module load
>
> module loading currently does a stop_machine on each module load to insert
> the module into the global module lists.  Especially on larger systems this
> can be quite expensive.

Thanks Andi, but doesn't this mean that we should be doing list_for_each_rcu 
in all the kallsyms readers?

Rusty.
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