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* [PATCH net v2] docs: net: fix documentation on .ndo_get_stats
@ 2021-01-05  1:22 Jakub Kicinski
  2021-01-05 11:51 ` Vladimir Oltean
  2021-01-06  0:42 ` David Miller
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Jakub Kicinski @ 2021-01-05  1:22 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: davem; +Cc: netdev, olteanv, Jakub Kicinski

Fix calling context.

Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
---
 Documentation/networking/netdevices.rst | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/networking/netdevices.rst b/Documentation/networking/netdevices.rst
index 5a85fcc80c76..e65665c5ab50 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/netdevices.rst
+++ b/Documentation/networking/netdevices.rst
@@ -64,8 +64,8 @@ struct net_device synchronization rules
 	Context: process
 
 ndo_get_stats:
-	Synchronization: dev_base_lock rwlock.
-	Context: nominally process, but don't sleep inside an rwlock
+	Synchronization: rtnl_lock() semaphore, dev_base_lock rwlock, or RCU.
+	Context: atomic (can't sleep under rwlock or RCU)
 
 ndo_start_xmit:
 	Synchronization: __netif_tx_lock spinlock.
-- 
2.26.2


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