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Commit 1a2e10a2 authored by David S. Miller's avatar David S. Miller
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Merge branch 'Rework-ip_ra_chain-protection'



Kirill Tkhai says:

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Rework ip_ra_chain protection

Commit 1215e51e "ipv4: fix a deadlock in ip_ra_control"
made rtnl_lock() be used in raw_close(). This function is called
on every RAW socket destruction, so that rtnl_mutex is taken
every time. This scales very sadly. I observe cleanup_net()
spending a lot of time in rtnl_lock() and raw_close() is one
of the biggest rtnl user (since we have percpu net->ipv4.icmp_sk).

This patchset reworks the locking: reverts the problem commit
and its descendant, and introduces rtnl-independent locking.
This may have a continuation, and someone may work on killing
rtnl_lock() in mrtsock_destruct() in the future.

v3: Change patches order: [2/5] and [3/5].
v2: Fix sparse warning [4/5], as reported by kbuild test robot.
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Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parents f2d254fa d9ff3049
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