The ip6_fib_timer gc timer is dynamically allocated and initialized in the ip6 fib init function. There are no more references to a static global variable. That will allow to make multiple instance of the garbage collecting timer and make them per namespace. Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano Signed-off-by: Benjamin Thery --- net/ipv6/ip6_fib.c | 33 +++++++++++++++++++++------------ 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) Index: net-2.6.25/net/ipv6/ip6_fib.c =================================================================== --- net-2.6.25.orig/net/ipv6/ip6_fib.c +++ net-2.6.25/net/ipv6/ip6_fib.c @@ -95,8 +95,7 @@ static __u32 rt_sernum; static void fib6_gc_timer_cb(unsigned long arg); -static DEFINE_TIMER(ip6_fib_timer, fib6_gc_timer_cb, 0, - (unsigned long)&init_net); +static struct timer_list *ip6_fib_timer; static struct fib6_walker_t fib6_walker_list = { .prev = &fib6_walker_list, @@ -666,16 +665,16 @@ static int fib6_add_rt2node(struct fib6_ static __inline__ void fib6_start_gc(struct rt6_info *rt) { - if (ip6_fib_timer.expires == 0 && + if (ip6_fib_timer->expires == 0 && (rt->rt6i_flags & (RTF_EXPIRES|RTF_CACHE))) - mod_timer(&ip6_fib_timer, jiffies + + mod_timer(ip6_fib_timer, jiffies + init_net.ipv6.sysctl.ip6_rt_gc_interval); } void fib6_force_start_gc(void) { - if (ip6_fib_timer.expires == 0) - mod_timer(&ip6_fib_timer, jiffies + + if (ip6_fib_timer->expires == 0) + mod_timer(ip6_fib_timer, jiffies + init_net.ipv6.sysctl.ip6_rt_gc_interval); } @@ -1444,7 +1443,7 @@ void fib6_run_gc(unsigned long expires, } else { local_bh_disable(); if (!spin_trylock(&fib6_gc_lock)) { - mod_timer(&ip6_fib_timer, jiffies + HZ); + mod_timer(ip6_fib_timer, jiffies + HZ); local_bh_enable(); return; } @@ -1457,11 +1456,11 @@ void fib6_run_gc(unsigned long expires, fib6_clean_all(net, fib6_age, 0, NULL); if (gc_args.more) - mod_timer(&ip6_fib_timer, jiffies + + mod_timer(ip6_fib_timer, jiffies + net->ipv6.sysctl.ip6_rt_gc_interval); else { - del_timer(&ip6_fib_timer); - ip6_fib_timer.expires = 0; + del_timer(ip6_fib_timer); + ip6_fib_timer->expires = 0; } spin_unlock_bh(&fib6_gc_lock); } @@ -1541,9 +1540,16 @@ int __init fib6_init(void) if (!fib6_node_kmem) goto out; + ret = -ENOMEM; + ip6_fib_timer = kzalloc(sizeof(*ip6_fib_timer), GFP_KERNEL); + if (!ip6_fib_timer) + goto out_kmem_cache_create; + + setup_timer(ip6_fib_timer, fib6_gc_timer_cb, (unsigned long)&init_net); + ret = register_pernet_subsys(&fib6_net_ops); if (ret) - goto out_kmem_cache_create; + goto out_timer; ret = __rtnl_register(PF_INET6, RTM_GETROUTE, NULL, inet6_dump_fib); if (ret) @@ -1553,6 +1559,8 @@ out: out_unregister_subsys: unregister_pernet_subsys(&fib6_net_ops); +out_timer: + kfree(ip6_fib_timer); out_kmem_cache_create: kmem_cache_destroy(fib6_node_kmem); goto out; @@ -1560,7 +1568,8 @@ out_kmem_cache_create: void fib6_gc_cleanup(void) { - del_timer(&ip6_fib_timer); + del_timer(ip6_fib_timer); + kfree(ip6_fib_timer); unregister_pernet_subsys(&fib6_net_ops); kmem_cache_destroy(fib6_node_kmem); } -- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html