netdev - rtnl_lock() question

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Date:   Tue, 03 Sep 2019 14:55:17 -0700
From:   "Jonathan Lemon" <jonathan.lemon@...il.com>
To:     Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: rtnl_lock() question

How appropriate is it to hold the rtnl_lock() across a sleepable
memory allocation?  On one hand it's just a mutex, but it would
seem like it could block quite a few things.
-- 
Jonathan