[PATCH RFC tip/core/rcu 0/4] Forbid static SRCU use in modules

[Paul E. McKenney]

On Tue, Apr 09, 2019 at 02:04:11PM -0400, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> ----- On Apr 9, 2019, at 1:55 PM, paulmck paulmck at linux.ibm.com wrote:
> [...]
> > The current state is not horrible, so my thought would be to give it
> > some time to see if better thoughts arise.
> > 
> > Either way, cleanup_srcu_struct() keeps its current checks for callbacks
> > still being in flight, which is why I believe that the current state is
> > not horrible.  ;-)
> 
> In that case, I think the comment above cleanup_srcu_struct_quiesced() in
> include/linux/srcu.h needs to be updated to cover situations where API
> users statically define a SRCU domain in a module and intend to unload
> that module.
> 
> Given that we end up doing the allocation/cleanup under the hood, the
> API users don't interact with init_srcu_struct() nor cleanup_srcu_struct(),
> so it's not obvious that this comment also applies to them.

Actually, it turned out that cleanup_srcu_struct_quiesced() is extremely
hard to use correctly, and maybe even impossible to use correctly.
So cleanup_srcu_struct_quiesced has been eliminated in current -rcu.

							Thanx, Paul

> Thanks,
> 
> Mathieu
> 
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