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Commit 4d961a10 authored by David S. Miller's avatar David S. Miller
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Merge branch 'bonding_monitor_locking'



Ding Tianhong says:

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bonding: patchset for rcu use in bonding

The slave list will add and del by bond_master_upper_dev_link() and
bond_upper_dev_unlink(), which will call call_netdevice_notifiers(),
even it is safe to call it in write bond lock now, but we can't sure
that whether it is safe later, because other drivers may deal
NETDEV_CHANGEUPPER in sleep way, so I didn't admit move the
bond_upper_dev_unlink() in write bond lock.

now the bond_for_each_slave only protect by rtnl_lock(), maybe use
bond_for_each_slave_rcu is a good way to protect slave list for bond,
but as a system slow path, it is no need to transform
bond_for_each_slave() to bond_for_each_slave_rcu() in slow path, so in
the patchset, I will remove the unused read bond lock for monitor
function, maybe it is a better way, I will wait to accept any relay
for it.

Thanks for the Veaceslav Falico opinion.

v2: add and modify commit for patchset and patch, it will be the first
step for the whole patchset.
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Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parents a00f6fcc 5cc172c6
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