netdev - Re: [PATCH] bridge: add rcu_read

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Date:	Wed, 28 Jul 2010 10:52:09 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	shemminger@...tta.com
Cc:	johannes@...solutions.net, paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bridge: add rcu_read_lock

From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 09:57:30 -0700

> Long ago, when bridge was converted to RCU, rcu lock was equivalent
> to having preempt disabled. RCU has changed a lot since then and
> bridge code was still assuming the since transmit was called with
> bottom half disabled, it was RCU safe.
> 
> In addition to fixing the code, update the comments about
> locking to match current state as well.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>

As I stated in another email I added the original commit.

This version still didn't apply to net-2.6 and also you failed
to add a tested-by tag for Johannes to the commit message, which
I also did alongside backporting the original patch to net-2.6
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