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

From: Bob Copeland <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2016 09:15:11 -0500

On Tue, Mar 01, 2016 at 02:54:16PM +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> 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.

Yeah, these two are on top of the other mesh path table changes.

So either both of these could go via mac80211-next or we could do the
1/2 in net-next and wait to apply 2/2 in mac80211-next.  Whatever works
for you guys.

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