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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: freeze with interface rename & SIOCGIFNAME
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2013 10:05:33 -0700
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On Tue, 2013-06-25 at 09:57 -0700, Eric Dumazet wrote:

> I am not sure it's needed, because the writer holds a spinlock and is
> not allowed to sleep or being preempted.
> 
> If it's needed, there is a bug somewhere else...

Oh well, its a write_seqcount, so no spinlock...