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From: Ido Schimmel <idosch@idosch.org>
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: davem@davemloft.net, nhorman@tuxdriver.com, dsahern@gmail.com,
	roopa@cumulusnetworks.com, nikolay@cumulusnetworks.com,
	jakub.kicinski@netronome.com, toke@redhat.com,
	andy@greyhouse.net, f.fainelli@gmail.com, andrew@lunn.ch,
	vivien.didelot@gmail.com, mlxsw@mellanox.com,
	Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com>
Subject: [RFC PATCH net-next 03/12] drop_monitor: Document scope of spinlock
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2019 21:31:25 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190722183134.14516-4-idosch@idosch.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190722183134.14516-1-idosch@idosch.org>

From: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com>

While 'per_cpu_dm_data' is a per-CPU variable, its 'skb' and
'send_timer' fields can be accessed concurrently by the CPU sending the
netlink notification to user space from the workqueue and the CPU
tracing kfree_skb(). This spinlock is meant to protect against that.

Document its scope and suppress the checkpatch message "spinlock_t
definition without comment".

Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com>
---
 net/core/drop_monitor.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/core/drop_monitor.c b/net/core/drop_monitor.c
index 000ec8b66d1e..35d31b007da4 100644
--- a/net/core/drop_monitor.c
+++ b/net/core/drop_monitor.c
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ static int trace_state = TRACE_OFF;
 static DEFINE_MUTEX(net_dm_mutex);
 
 struct per_cpu_dm_data {
-	spinlock_t		lock;
+	spinlock_t		lock;	/* Protects 'skb' and 'send_timer' */
 	struct sk_buff		*skb;
 	struct work_struct	dm_alert_work;
 	struct timer_list	send_timer;
-- 
2.21.0


  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-07-22 18:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-07-22 18:31 [RFC PATCH net-next 00/12] drop_monitor: Capture dropped packets and metadata Ido Schimmel
2019-07-22 18:31 ` [RFC PATCH net-next 01/12] drop_monitor: Use correct error code Ido Schimmel
2019-07-22 18:31 ` [RFC PATCH net-next 02/12] drop_monitor: Rename and document scope of mutex Ido Schimmel
2019-07-22 18:31 ` Ido Schimmel [this message]
2019-07-22 18:31 ` [RFC PATCH net-next 04/12] drop_monitor: Avoid multiple blank lines Ido Schimmel
2019-07-22 18:31 ` [RFC PATCH net-next 05/12] drop_monitor: Add extack support Ido Schimmel
2019-07-22 18:31 ` [RFC PATCH net-next 06/12] drop_monitor: Use pre_doit / post_doit hooks Ido Schimmel
2019-07-22 18:31 ` [RFC PATCH net-next 07/12] drop_monitor: Split tracing enable / disable to different functions Ido Schimmel
2019-07-22 18:31 ` [RFC PATCH net-next 08/12] drop_monitor: Initialize timer and work item upon tracing enable Ido Schimmel
2019-07-24  9:01   ` Jiri Pirko
2019-07-24 17:02     ` Ido Schimmel
2019-07-22 18:31 ` [RFC PATCH net-next 09/12] drop_monitor: Require CAP_NET_ADMIN for drop monitor configuration Ido Schimmel
2019-07-22 18:31 ` [RFC PATCH net-next 10/12] drop_monitor: Add packet alert mode Ido Schimmel
2019-07-23 12:43   ` Neil Horman
2019-07-23 14:16     ` Ido Schimmel
2019-07-23 15:14       ` Neil Horman
2019-07-24  7:10         ` Ido Schimmel
2019-07-24 12:53   ` Jiri Pirko
2019-07-24 16:57     ` Ido Schimmel
2019-07-29  9:52   ` [drop_monitor] 98ffbd6cd2: will-it-scale.per_thread_ops -17.5% regression kernel test robot
2019-08-05 11:56     ` Ido Schimmel
2019-07-22 18:31 ` [RFC PATCH net-next 11/12] drop_monitor: Allow truncation of dropped packets Ido Schimmel
     [not found]   ` <20190724125537.GC2225@nanopsycho>
2019-07-24 16:49     ` Ido Schimmel
2019-07-22 18:31 ` [RFC PATCH net-next 12/12] drop_monitor: Add a command to query current configuration Ido Schimmel
2019-07-22 19:43 ` [RFC PATCH net-next 00/12] drop_monitor: Capture dropped packets and metadata Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2019-07-23  6:46   ` Ido Schimmel
2019-07-23 12:17     ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2019-07-23 15:14       ` Ido Schimmel
2019-07-23 15:47         ` David Ahern
2019-07-24  7:57           ` Ido Schimmel
2019-07-23 16:08         ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2019-07-24  8:10           ` Ido Schimmel
2019-07-24  9:51             ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2019-07-24 12:58         ` Jiri Pirko
2019-07-24 16:48           ` Ido Schimmel
2019-07-24 22:48   ` David Miller
2019-07-24 15:15 ` Jiri Pirko

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