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* [PATCH net-next v2 3/5] bonding: remove bond read lock for bond_loadbalance_arp_mon()
@ 2013-10-24  3:09 Ding Tianhong
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From: Ding Tianhong @ 2013-10-24  3:09 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Jay Vosburgh, Andy Gospodarek, David S. Miller,
	Nikolay Aleksandrov, Veaceslav Falico, Netdev

The bond slave list may change when the monitor is running, the slave list is no longer
protected by bond->lock, only protected by rtnl lock(), so we has 3 way to modify it:
1.add bond_master_upper_dev_link() and bond_upper_dev_unlink() in bond->lock, but it is unsafe
to call call_netdevice_notifiers() in write lock.
2.remove unused bond->lock for monitor function, only use the exist rtnl lock().
3.use rcu_read_lock() to protect it, of course, it will transform bond_for_each_slave to
bond_for_each_slave_rcu() and performance is better, but in slow path, it is ignored.
so I remove the bond->lock and add the rtnl lock to protect the whole monitor function.

Signed-off-by: Ding Tianhong <dingtianhong@huawei.com>
---
 drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c | 10 ++++++----
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
index ba90f45..149f4b9 100644
--- a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
@@ -2433,10 +2433,13 @@ void bond_loadbalance_arp_mon(struct work_struct *work)
 	struct list_head *iter;
 	int do_failover = 0;
 
-	read_lock(&bond->lock);
+	if (!rtnl_trylock())
+		goto re_arm;
 
-	if (!bond_has_slaves(bond))
+	if (!bond_has_slaves(bond)) {
+		rtnl_unlock();
 		goto re_arm;
+	}
 
 	oldcurrent = bond->curr_active_slave;
 	/* see if any of the previous devices are up now (i.e. they have
@@ -2518,13 +2521,12 @@ void bond_loadbalance_arp_mon(struct work_struct *work)
 		write_unlock_bh(&bond->curr_slave_lock);
 		unblock_netpoll_tx();
 	}
+	rtnl_unlock();
 
 re_arm:
 	if (bond->params.arp_interval)
 		queue_delayed_work(bond->wq, &bond->arp_work,
 				   msecs_to_jiffies(bond->params.arp_interval));
-
-	read_unlock(&bond->lock);
 }
 
 /*
-- 
1.8.2.1

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