From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: eric.dumazet@gmail.com
Cc: maximlevitsky@gmail.com, linux1394-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru, jmorris@namei.org, kaber@trash.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: RCU conversion of dev_getbyhwaddr() and arp_ioctl()
Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2010 10:10:35 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101208.101035.226775926.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1291831654.2883.66.camel@edumazet-laptop>
From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2010 19:07:34 +0100
> Le mercredi 08 décembre 2010 à 10:05 -0800, David Miller a écrit :
>> From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
>> Date: Sun, 05 Dec 2010 12:23:53 +0100
>>
>> > [PATCH] net: RCU conversion of dev_getbyhwaddr() and arp_ioctl()
>> >
>> > dev_getbyhwaddr() was called under RTNL.
>> >
>> > Rename it to dev_getbyhwaddr_rcu() and change all its caller to now use
>> > RCU locking instead of RTNL.
>> >
>> > Change arp_ioctl() to use RCU instead of RTNL locking.
>> >
>> > Note: this fix a dev refcount bug in llc
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
>>
>> Applied, thanks Eric.
>
> Hmm, dont you want I resubmit it after the "llc: fix a device refcount
> imbalance" patch pulled from net-2.6 ?
>
> Sorry for the mess...
I know about the conflict and will resolve it when I do a merge in
the next hour or so.
Don't worry about this.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-12-08 18:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-11-29 2:09 [PATCH 0/5 V2] Firewire networking assorted fixes Maxim Levitsky
2010-11-29 2:09 ` [PATCH 1/5] firewire: ohci: restore GUID on resume Maxim Levitsky
2010-11-29 2:09 ` [PATCH 2/5] firewire: ohci: restart ISO DMA contexts on resume from low power mode Maxim Levitsky
2010-11-29 2:09 ` [PATCH 3/5] NET: IPV4: ARP: allow to invalidate specific ARP entries Maxim Levitsky
2010-12-04 23:15 ` Maxim Levitsky
2010-12-05 8:19 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-12-05 11:23 ` [PATCH] net: RCU conversion of dev_getbyhwaddr() and arp_ioctl() Eric Dumazet
2010-12-05 12:03 ` [PATCH net-2.6] llc: fix a device refcount imbalance Eric Dumazet
2010-12-08 17:59 ` David Miller
2010-12-09 3:46 ` Maxim Levitsky
2010-12-16 21:49 ` Maxim Levitsky
2010-12-08 18:05 ` [PATCH] net: RCU conversion of dev_getbyhwaddr() and arp_ioctl() David Miller
2010-12-08 18:07 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-12-08 18:10 ` David Miller [this message]
2010-12-08 18:11 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-01-07 12:47 ` [PATCH 3/5] NET: IPV4: ARP: allow to invalidate specific ARP entries Maxim Levitsky
2011-01-07 12:57 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-01-07 13:15 ` Maxim Levitsky
2011-01-08 23:57 ` Maxim Levitsky
2011-01-11 0:11 ` David Miller
2010-11-29 2:09 ` [PATCH 4/5] firewire: net: invalidate ARP entries of removed nodes Maxim Levitsky
2010-11-29 2:09 ` [PATCH 5/5] firewire: net: ratelimit error messages Maxim Levitsky
2010-11-29 15:02 ` [PATCH 0/5 V2] Firewire networking assorted fixes Stefan Richter
2010-12-04 23:14 ` Maxim Levitsky
2010-12-08 3:32 ` Maxim Levitsky
2010-12-09 1:42 ` Maxim Levitsky
[not found] ` <20101208040559.20639.qmail@stuge.se>
[not found] ` <1291809485.5421.0.camel@maxim-laptop>
2010-12-12 17:09 ` [PATCH update] firewire: net: add carrier detection Stefan Richter
2010-12-12 23:05 ` Ben Hutchings
2010-12-13 0:46 ` [PATCH update 2] " Stefan Richter
2010-12-13 23:01 ` [PATCH update 3] " Stefan Richter
2010-12-14 23:46 ` Maxim Levitsky
2010-12-16 1:17 ` Dan Williams
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