Ravikiran G Thirumalai <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Patch to add gfp_flags as args to __get_vm_area. alloc_percpu needs to use
> GFP flags as the dst_entry.refcount needs to be allocated with GFP_ATOMIC.
> Since alloc_percpu needs get_vm_area underneath, this patch changes
> __get_vmarea to accept gfp_flags as arg, so that alloc_percpu can use
> __get_vm_area. get_vm_area remains unchanged.
Is dst_alloc() ever called from IRQ or softirq contexts?
If so, __get_vm_area()'s write_lock(&vmlist_lock) is now deadlockable.
If not, then you've just added a restriction to dst_alloc()'s usage which
should be checked over by the net guys and which needs commenting in the code.
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