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NFSD: Remove svc_serv_ops::svo_module

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struct svc_serv_ops is about to be removed.

Neil Brown says:
> I suspect svo_module can go as well - I don't think the thread is
> ever the thing that primarily keeps a module active.

A random sample of kthread_create() callers shows sunrpc is the only
one that manages module reference count in this way.

Suggested-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
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Chuck Lever
2022-02-16 12:31:09 -05:00
parent c7d7ec8f04
commit f49169c97f
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@@ -335,7 +335,7 @@ static inline void add_taint_module(struct module *mod, unsigned flag,
/*
* A thread that wants to hold a reference to a module only while it
* is running can call this to safely exit. nfsd and lockd use this.
* is running can call this to safely exit.
*/
void __noreturn __module_put_and_kthread_exit(struct module *mod, long code)
{