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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2010-05-31 15:19:37 -0400
committerRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>2010-06-04 21:47:35 -0400
commit2c02dfe7fe3fba97a5665d329d039d2415ea5607 (patch)
tree7f50644bbfcc119cb85e21642a76eabfaf77b8ad /include/linux/module.h
parentad8456361fa19068cf49b50a4f98e41b73c08e76 (diff)
module: Make the 'usage' lists be two-way
When adding a module that depends on another one, we used to create a one-way list of "modules_which_use_me", so that module unloading could see who needs a module. It's actually quite simple to make that list go both ways: so that we not only can see "who uses me", but also see a list of modules that are "used by me". In fact, we always wanted that list in "module_unload_free()": when we unload a module, we want to also release all the other modules that are used by that module. But because we didn't have that list, we used to first iterate over all modules, and then iterate over each "used by me" list of that module. By making the list two-way, we simplify module_unload_free(), and it allows for some trivial fixes later too. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (cleaned & rebased)
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1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/module.h b/include/linux/module.h
index 6914fcad4673..680db9e2ac36 100644
--- a/include/linux/module.h
+++ b/include/linux/module.h
@@ -359,7 +359,9 @@ struct module
359 359
360#ifdef CONFIG_MODULE_UNLOAD 360#ifdef CONFIG_MODULE_UNLOAD
361 /* What modules depend on me? */ 361 /* What modules depend on me? */
362 struct list_head modules_which_use_me; 362 struct list_head source_list;
363 /* What modules do I depend on? */
364 struct list_head target_list;
363 365
364 /* Who is waiting for us to be unloaded */ 366 /* Who is waiting for us to be unloaded */
365 struct task_struct *waiter; 367 struct task_struct *waiter;