netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: do not use rcu in rtnl_dump

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Date:	Fri, 27 Feb 2015 09:40:30 -0800
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>
Cc:	nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: do not use rcu in rtnl_dump_ifinfo()

On Fri, 2015-02-27 at 18:19 +0100, Daniel Borkmann wrote:
> On 02/27/2015 06:07 PM, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> > From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> >
> > We did a failed attempt in the past to only use rcu in rtnl dump
> > operations (commit e67f88dd12f6 "net: dont hold rtnl mutex during
> > netlink dump callbacks")
> >
> > Now that dumps are holding RTNL anyway, there is no need to also
> > use rcu locking, as it forbids any scheduling ability, like
> > GFP_KERNEL allocations that controlling path should use instead
> > of GFP_ATOMIC whenever possible.
> >
> > This should fix following splat Cong Wang reported :
> >
> > ===============================
> 
> [ Btw, I think patchwork has an issue with above line when fetching
>    the mbox : it thinks commit description ends here. :(
> 
>    Prefixing with a space char should help to not get it lost. ]


Thanks Daniel for this hint, will send a v2.


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