netdev - Re: RTNL: assertion failed at net/core/dev.c (4494) and RTNL: assertion failed at net/core/rtnetlink.c (940)

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Date:	Thu, 6 Feb 2014 14:12:25 -0800
From:	Cong Wang <cwang@...pensource.com>
To:	Jay Vosburgh <fubar@...ibm.com>
Cc:	Thomas Glanzmann <thomas@...nzmann.de>,
	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@...hat.com>, andy@...yhouse.net,
	Jiří Pírko <jiri@...nulli.us>
Subject: Re: RTNL: assertion failed at net/core/dev.c (4494) and RTNL:
 assertion failed at net/core/rtnetlink.c (940)

On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 2:07 PM, Jay Vosburgh <fubar@...ibm.com> wrote:
> Jay Vosburgh <fubar@...ibm.com> wrote:
>
>>Cong Wang <cwang@...pensource.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>       That would eliminate the warning, but is suboptimal.  Acquiring
>>RTNL is not necessary on the vast majority of state machine runs
>>(because no state changes take place, i.e., no ports are disabled or
>>enabled).  The above change would add 10 round trips per second to RTNL,
>>which seems excessive.
>>
>>       Also, we cannot unconditionally acquire RTNL in this function,
>>as it would race with the call to cancel_delayed_work_sync from
>>bond_close (via bond_work_cancel_all).

OK.

>
>         Thought of one more problem: we can't hold a regular lock while
> calling rtmsg_ifinfo, as it may sleep in alloc_skb.  The rtmsg_ifinfo
> call has to be RTNL and nothing else.
>

s/GFP_KERNEL/GFP_ATOMIC/
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