From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: kaber@trash.net
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RTNETLINK 02/04]: Hold rtnl_mutex during netlink dump callbacks
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 16:59:20 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070416.165920.77404735.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070416074951.19262.57226.sendpatchset@localhost.localdomain>
From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 09:51:54 +0200 (MEST)
> [RTNETLINK]: Hold rtnl_mutex during netlink dump callbacks
>
> Hold rtnl_mutex during the entire netlink dump operation. This allows
> to simplify locking in the dump callbacks, since they can now rely on
> that no concurrent changes happen.
>
> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Applied, thanks Patrick.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-16 23:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-16 7:51 [NETLINK 00/04]: Consistent dump callback locking Patrick McHardy
2007-04-16 7:51 ` [NETLINK 01/04]: Switch cb_lock spinlock to mutex and allow to override it Patrick McHardy
2007-04-16 23:55 ` David Miller
2007-04-17 10:40 ` Patrick McHardy
2007-04-16 7:51 ` [RTNETLINK 02/04]: Hold rtnl_mutex during netlink dump callbacks Patrick McHardy
2007-04-16 23:59 ` David Miller [this message]
2007-04-16 7:51 ` [RTNETLINK 03/04]: Remove unnecessary locking in " Patrick McHardy
2007-04-17 0:01 ` David Miller
2007-04-16 7:51 ` [NET_SCHED 04/04]: Eliminate qdisc_tree_lock Patrick McHardy
2007-04-17 0:06 ` David Miller
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