netdev - [RFC PATCH 15/15] l2tp: use pre_exit pernet hook to avoid rcu

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Message-Id: <ce5ffdd299cefef8895fd33ea5153300ce6b46d2.1721733730.git.jchapman@katalix.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2024 14:51:43 +0100
From: James Chapman <jchapman@...alix.com>
To: netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc: davem@...emloft.net,
	edumazet@...gle.com,
	kuba@...nel.org,
	pabeni@...hat.com,
	dsahern@...nel.org,
	tparkin@...alix.com
Subject: [RFC PATCH 15/15] l2tp: use pre_exit pernet hook to avoid rcu_barrier

Move the work of closing all tunnels from the pernet exit hook to
pre_exit since the core does rcu synchronisation between these steps
and we can therefore remove rcu_barrier from l2tp code.
---
 net/l2tp/l2tp_core.c | 9 +++++++--
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/l2tp/l2tp_core.c b/net/l2tp/l2tp_core.c
index fd03c17dd20c..5d2068b6c778 100644
--- a/net/l2tp/l2tp_core.c
+++ b/net/l2tp/l2tp_core.c
@@ -1756,7 +1756,7 @@ static __net_init int l2tp_init_net(struct net *net)
 	return 0;
 }
 
-static __net_exit void l2tp_exit_net(struct net *net)
+static __net_exit void l2tp_pre_exit_net(struct net *net)
 {
 	struct l2tp_net *pn = l2tp_pernet(net);
 	struct l2tp_tunnel *tunnel = NULL;
@@ -1771,7 +1771,11 @@ static __net_exit void l2tp_exit_net(struct net *net)
 
 	if (l2tp_wq)
 		drain_workqueue(l2tp_wq);
-	rcu_barrier();
+}
+
+static __net_exit void l2tp_exit_net(struct net *net)
+{
+	struct l2tp_net *pn = l2tp_pernet(net);
 
 	idr_destroy(&pn->l2tp_v2_session_idr);
 	idr_destroy(&pn->l2tp_v3_session_idr);
@@ -1781,6 +1785,7 @@ static __net_exit void l2tp_exit_net(struct net *net)
 static struct pernet_operations l2tp_net_ops = {
 	.init = l2tp_init_net,
 	.exit = l2tp_exit_net,
+	.pre_exit = l2tp_pre_exit_net,
 	.id   = &l2tp_net_id,
 	.size = sizeof(struct l2tp_net),
 };
-- 
2.34.1