linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] module: add support to avoid duplicates early on load

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Date:   Tue, 30 May 2023 17:31:20 -0700
From:   Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@...nel.org>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     Johan Hovold <johan@...nel.org>,
        Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@...el.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] module: add support to avoid duplicates early on load

On Tue, May 30, 2023 at 09:22:14AM -0700, Luis Chamberlain wrote:
> The only thing I can think of is allowing threads other than the
> first one to complete before the one that actually loaded the
> module. I thought about this race for module auto-loading, see
> the comment in kmod_dup_request_announce(), so that just
> further delays the completion to other thread with a stupid
> queue_work(). That seems more important for module auto-loading
> duplicates than for boot finit_module() duplicates. But not sure
> if odering matters in the end due to a preemtible kernel and maybe
> that concern is hysteria.

I think I'm OK to accept this ordering concern as hysteria for now.

  Luis