Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 1/2] rhashtable: accept GFP flags in rhashtable_walk_init

From: Johannes Berg <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2016 14:54:16 +0100

On Sun, 2016-02-28 at 20:06 -0500, Bob Copeland wrote:
> In certain cases, the 802.11 mesh pathtable code wants to
> iterate over all of the entries in the forwarding table from
> the receive path, which is inside an RCU read-side critical
> section.  Enable walks inside atomic sections by allowing
> GFP_ATOMIC allocations for the walker state.
> 
> Change all existing callsites to pass in GFP_KERNEL.

Both look fine to me.

I see you have more patches for mesh, so this probably can't go through
net-next tree directly.

johannes