From: David S. Miller Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2014 00:31:43 +0000 (-0700) Subject: Merge branch 'bond_lock_removal' X-Git-Tag: v3.18-rc1~52^2~119 X-Git-Url: http://git.osdn.net/view?a=commitdiff_plain;h=29c10a817f54131ec6babe724aada6772acbbf47;p=uclinux-h8%2Flinux.git Merge branch 'bond_lock_removal' Nikolay Aleksandrov says: ==================== bonding: get rid of bond->lock This patch-set removes the last users of bond->lock and converts the places that needed it for sync to use curr_slave_lock or RCU as appropriate. I've run this with lockdep and have stress-tested it via loading/unloading and enslaving/releasing in parallel while outputting bond's proc, I didn't see any issues. Please pay special attention to the procfs change, I've done about an hour of stress-testing on it and have checked that the event that causes the bonding to delete its proc entry (NETDEV_UNREGISTER) is called before ndo_uninit() and the freeing of the dev so any readers will sync with that. Also ran sparse checks and there were no splats. v2: Add patch 0001/cxgb4 bond->lock removal, RTNL should be held in the notifier call, the other patches are the same. Also tested with allmodconfig to make sure there're no more users of bond->lock. Changes from the RFC: use RCU in procfs instead of RTNL since RTNL might lead to a deadlock with unloading and also is much slower. The bond destruction syncs with proc via the proc locks. There's one new patch that converts primary_slave to use RCU as it was necessary to fix a longstanding bugs in sysfs and procfs and to make it easy to migrate bond's procfs to RCU. And of course rebased on top of net-next current. This is the first patch-set in a series that should simplify the bond's locking requirements and will make it easier to define the locking conditions necessary for the various paths. The goal is to rely on RTNL and rcu alone, an extra lock would be needed in a few special cases that would be documented very well. ==================== Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- 29c10a817f54131ec6babe724aada6772acbbf47