netdev - Re: [PATCH] rtnl: Simplify ASSERT

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Date:	Wed, 10 Oct 2007 21:16:54 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	ebiederm@...ssion.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rtnl: Simplify ASSERT_RTNL

From: ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 18:59:08 -0600

> 
> Currently we have the call path:
> macvlan_open -> dev_unicast_add -> __dev_set_rx_mode ->
> 	__dev_set_promiscuity -> ASSERT_RTNL -> mutex_trylock
> 
> When mutex debugging is on taking a mutex complains if we are not
> allowed to sleep.  At that point we have called netif_tx_lock_bh
> so we are clearly not allowed to sleep.  Arguably this is not a
> problem for mutex_trylock.
> 
> However we can avoid the complaint and make the ASSERT_RTNL code
> cheaper, faster and more obvious by simply calling mutex_is_locked.
> 
> So this patch adds rtnl_is_locked (which does mutex_is_locked on
> the rtnl_mutex) and changes ASSERT_RTNL to use that.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@...ssion.com>

There was a lot of discussion about how to do this right and
therefore you'll need to resubmit all of this with this
discussioned issues addressed.
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