netdev - Re: [PATCH 3/6] netfilter: ctnetlink: use GFP

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Date:	Tue, 06 Mar 2012 07:09:17 -0800
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>
Cc:	netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org, davem@...emloft.net,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/6] netfilter: ctnetlink: use GFP_ATOMIC in all
 allocations

Le mardi 06 mars 2012 à 15:48 +0100, Pablo Neira Ayuso a écrit :
> On Tue, Mar 06, 2012 at 04:50:21AM -0800, Eric Dumazet wrote:

> > This cant be right.
> > 
> > Really this must be kept as GFP_KERNEL allocations.
> > 
> > Only if .call_rcu member is used in place of .call rcu_read_lock() is
> > held instead of nfnl_lock().
> 
> I thought we couldn't sleep while holding rcu_read_lock.

True, but as far as I can see we dont hold rcu_read_lock() at this
point, only a mutex.

I added the .call_rcu() mechanism in struct nfnl_callback only for very
specific needs, namely performance improvements in commit 84a797dd0
(netfilter: nfnetlink_queue: provide rcu enabled callbacks)



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