netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/2] rhashtable: accept GFP flags in rhashtable_walk

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Date:	Thu, 3 Mar 2016 10:41:52 -0500
From:	Bob Copeland <me@...copeland.com>
To:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
Cc:	linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] rhashtable: accept GFP flags in rhashtable_walk_init

On Thu, Mar 03, 2016 at 04:26:19PM +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Wed, 2016-03-02 at 10:09 -0500, Bob Copeland wrote:
> > In certain cases, the 802.11 mesh pathtable code wants to
> > iterate over all of the entries in the forwarding table from
> > the receive path, which is inside an RCU read-side critical
> > section.  Enable walks inside atomic sections by allowing
> > GFP_ATOMIC allocations for the walker state.
> > 
> > Change all existing callsites to pass in GFP_KERNEL.
> 
> Applied both. You missed 3 callsites, I've fixed those. I hope I got
> them all :)

Ouch, thanks for the catch, I must've grepped only in net.
And now I added those files to my build config. :)

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