netdev - [PATCH net-next 0/2] net: core: rcuify rtnl af

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Message-Id: <20171016134436.25282-1-fw@strlen.de>
Date:   Mon, 16 Oct 2017 15:44:34 +0200
From:   Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>
To:     <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH net-next 0/2] net: core: rcuify rtnl af_ops

None of the rtnl af_ops callbacks sleep, so they can be called while
holding rcu read lock.

Switch handling of af_ops to rcu.

This would allow to later call af_ops functions without holding
the rtnl mutex anymore.

 core/rtnetlink.c |  134 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------
 ipv4/devinet.c   |    4 -
 2 files changed, 90 insertions(+), 48 deletions(-)