From: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@cumulusnetworks•com>
To: zyjzyj2000@gmail•com, j.vosburgh@gmail•com, vfalico@gmail•com,
gospo@cumulusnetworks•com, netdev@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] bond: relocate rcu_read_lock and rcu_read_unlock
Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2016 12:08:05 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <56AF3C95.3040606@cumulusnetworks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56AF3B24.7000207@cumulusnetworks.com>
On 02/01/2016 12:01 PM, Nikolay Aleksandrov wrote:
> On 02/01/2016 04:31 AM, zyjzyj2000@gmail•com wrote:
>> From: Zhu Yanjun <zyjzyj2000@gmail•com>
>>
>> rcu_read_lock and rcu_read_unlock are to protect the function
>> bond_miimon_inspect. As such, moving rcu_read_lock and rcu_read_unlock
>> to the function bond_miimon_inspect to make the source code compact.
>>
>> CC: Jay Vosburgh <j.vosburgh@gmail•com>
>> CC: Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@gmail•com>
>> CC: Andy Gospodarek <gospo@cumulusnetworks•com>
>> Signed-off-by: Zhu Yanjun <zyjzyj2000@gmail•com>
>> ---
>> drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c | 9 ++++-----
>> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>>
>
> Not true, RCU also protects the slave dereference in bond_should_notify_peers().
> Even though there's already a rcu_read_lock() while doing the dereference
> itself, it is there only to please RCU, IIRC. The only "simplification" you
Err, I meant to please lockdep when being called with RTNL.
> can do is remove the rcu_read_lock/unlock() around the slave deref in
> bond_should_notify_peers and use rcu_dereference_rtnl() as it can be used either
> in RCU protected region or with RTNL held. Also I think net-next is still
> closed (and that's where this should be targeted at).
>
> Cheers,
> Nik
>
>
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-02-01 3:31 [PATCH 1/1] bond: relocate rcu_read_lock and rcu_read_unlock zyjzyj2000
2016-02-01 11:01 ` Nikolay Aleksandrov
2016-02-01 11:08 ` Nikolay Aleksandrov [this message]
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