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From: David Vrabel <dvrabel@cantab•net>
To: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix•com>
Cc: ian.campbell@citrix•com, konrad.wilk@oracle•com,
	xen-devel@lists•xensource.com, netdev@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC PATCH 4/6] netback: add module get/put operations along with vif connect/disconnect.
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 18:44:25 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F107B89.6000004@cantab.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1326473949-22389-5-git-send-email-wei.liu2@citrix.com>

On 13/01/12 16:59, Wei Liu wrote:
> If there is vif running and user unloads netback, it will certainly
> cause problems.

Is this necessary?  As part of module unload netback_remove() will be
called and this will clean everything correctly, yes?

> Signed-off-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix•com>
> ---
>  drivers/net/xen-netback/interface.c |    4 ++++
>  1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/xen-netback/interface.c b/drivers/net/xen-netback/interface.c
> index 93cb212..3126028 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/xen-netback/interface.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/xen-netback/interface.c
> @@ -323,6 +323,8 @@ int xenvif_connect(struct xenvif *vif, unsigned long tx_ring_ref,
>  	if (vif->irq)
>  		return 0;
>  
> +	__module_get(THIS_MODULE);
> +
>  	err = xen_netbk_map_frontend_rings(vif, tx_ring_ref, rx_ring_ref);
>  	if (err < 0)
>  		goto err;
> @@ -405,4 +407,6 @@ void xenvif_disconnect(struct xenvif *vif)
>  	xen_netbk_unmap_frontend_rings(vif);
>  
>  	free_netdev(vif->dev);
> +
> +	module_put(THIS_MODULE);
>  }

  reply	other threads:[~2012-01-13 18:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-01-13 16:59 [RFC PATCH] New Xen netback implementation Wei Liu
2012-01-13 16:59 ` [RFC PATCH 1/6] netback: page pool version 1 Wei Liu
2012-01-13 17:37   ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-01-16  9:31     ` Wei Liu
2012-01-13 16:59 ` [RFC PATCH 2/6] netback: add module unload function Wei Liu
2012-01-13 17:57   ` [Xen-devel] " David Vrabel
2012-01-16  9:31     ` Wei Liu
2012-01-13 18:47   ` David Vrabel
2012-01-13 16:59 ` [RFC PATCH 3/6] netback: switch to NAPI + kthread model Wei Liu
2012-01-13 18:21   ` [Xen-devel] " David Vrabel
2012-01-16  9:33     ` Wei Liu
2012-01-16 10:45       ` Ian Campbell
2012-01-16 10:49         ` Wei Liu
2012-01-16 10:56         ` Paul Durrant
2012-01-16 11:09           ` Ian Campbell
2012-01-16 11:46             ` David Vrabel
2012-01-16 10:14   ` Paul Durrant
2012-01-16 10:31     ` Ian Campbell
2012-01-13 16:59 ` [RFC PATCH 4/6] netback: add module get/put operations along with vif connect/disconnect Wei Liu
2012-01-13 18:44   ` David Vrabel [this message]
2012-01-16  9:43     ` [Xen-devel] " Wei Liu
2012-01-13 16:59 ` [RFC PATCH 5/6] netback: melt xen_netbk into xenvif Wei Liu
2012-01-13 16:59 ` [RFC PATCH 6/6] netback: alter internal function/structure names Wei Liu

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