From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, laijs@cn.fujitsu.com,
dipankar@in.ibm.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca, josh@joshtriplett.org,
dvhltc@us.ibm.com, niv@us.ibm.com, tglx@linutronix.de,
peterz@infradead.org, rostedt@goodmis.org,
Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, dhowells@redhat.com,
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 05/13] net: add checking to rcu_dereference() primitives
Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2010 09:23:14 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100214082314.GA12658@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1265948152.2891.25.camel@edumazet-laptop>
* Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> wrote:
> Le jeudi 11 f??vrier 2010 ?? 16:00 -0800, Paul E. McKenney a ??crit :
> > Update rcu_dereference() primitives to use new lockdep-based checking.
> > The rcu_dereference() in __in6_dev_get() may be protected either by
> > rcu_read_lock() or RTNL, per Eric Dumazet. The rcu_dereference()
> > in __sk_free() is protected by the fact that it is never reached if an
> > update could change it. Check for this by using rcu_dereference_check()
> > to verify that the struct sock's ->sk_wmem_alloc counter is zero.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>
> CC to netdev and David Miller, network maintainer.
>
> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
>
> Thanks Paul, great work !
Dave, does this look good to you too? Cannot pick up the rest of the patchset
without these checks/annotations into the RCU tree as there's too many
warnings triggering in the networking code. So it's an all-or-nothing
patchset in that regard.
Thanks,
Ingo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-02-14 8:24 UTC|newest]
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[not found] ` <1265932839-25899-5-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2010-02-12 4:15 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 05/13] net: add checking to rcu_dereference() primitives Eric Dumazet
2010-02-14 8:23 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2010-02-15 7:18 ` David Miller
2010-02-14 8:34 ` Michał Mirosław
2010-02-14 8:50 ` Eric Dumazet
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