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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2010-05-18 17:27:54 +0200
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2010-05-18 17:27:54 +0200
commitb8ae30ee26d379db436b0b8c8c3ff1b52f69e5d1 (patch)
tree506aa0b4bdbf90f61e7e9261c7db90aa1452dcce /kernel/module.c
parentMerge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kern... (diff)
parentstop_machine: Move local variable closer to the usage site in cpu_stop_cpu_ca... (diff)
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Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (49 commits) stop_machine: Move local variable closer to the usage site in cpu_stop_cpu_callback() sched, wait: Use wrapper functions sched: Remove a stale comment ondemand: Make the iowait-is-busy time a sysfs tunable ondemand: Solve a big performance issue by counting IOWAIT time as busy sched: Intoduce get_cpu_iowait_time_us() sched: Eliminate the ts->idle_lastupdate field sched: Fold updating of the last_update_time_info into update_ts_time_stats() sched: Update the idle statistics in get_cpu_idle_time_us() sched: Introduce a function to update the idle statistics sched: Add a comment to get_cpu_idle_time_us() cpu_stop: add dummy implementation for UP sched: Remove rq argument to the tracepoints rcu: need barrier() in UP synchronize_sched_expedited() sched: correctly place paranioa memory barriers in synchronize_sched_expedited() sched: kill paranoia check in synchronize_sched_expedited() sched: replace migration_thread with cpu_stop stop_machine: reimplement using cpu_stop cpu_stop: implement stop_cpu[s]() sched: Fix select_idle_sibling() logic in select_task_rq_fair() ...
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/module.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/module.c14
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/module.c b/kernel/module.c
index b8a1e313448c..e2564580f3f1 100644
--- a/kernel/module.c
+++ b/kernel/module.c
@@ -724,16 +724,8 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(delete_module, const char __user *, name_user,
return -EFAULT;
name[MODULE_NAME_LEN-1] = '\0';
- /* Create stop_machine threads since free_module relies on
- * a non-failing stop_machine call. */
- ret = stop_machine_create();
- if (ret)
- return ret;
-
- if (mutex_lock_interruptible(&module_mutex) != 0) {
- ret = -EINTR;
- goto out_stop;
- }
+ if (mutex_lock_interruptible(&module_mutex) != 0)
+ return -EINTR;
mod = find_module(name);
if (!mod) {
@@ -793,8 +785,6 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(delete_module, const char __user *, name_user,
out:
mutex_unlock(&module_mutex);
-out_stop:
- stop_machine_destroy();
return ret;
}