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author | Robert Olsson <robert.olsson@its.uu.se> | 2007-03-16 18:00:07 -0400 |
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committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2007-03-16 18:00:07 -0400 |
commit | d5cc4a73a5b5c8374b810d5371e9e7ed05c1e02c (patch) | |
tree | 9fc98bedcecf6f910ec0c76f28e15fbda1ff6f1e /net | |
parent | db98e0b434a6265c451ffe94ec0a29b8d0aaf587 (diff) |
[IPV4]: Do not disable preemption in trie_leaf_remove().
Hello, Just discussed this Patrick...
We have two users of trie_leaf_remove, fn_trie_flush and fn_trie_delete
both are holding RTNL. So there shouldn't be need for this preempt stuff.
This is assumed to a leftover from an older RCU-take.
> Mhh .. I think I just remembered something - me incorrectly suggesting
> to add it there while we were talking about this at OLS :) IIRC the
> idea was to make sure tnode_free (which at that time didn't use
> call_rcu) wouldn't free memory while still in use in a rcu read-side
> critical section. It should have been synchronize_rcu of course,
> but with tnode_free using call_rcu it seems to be completely
> unnecessary. So I guess we can simply remove it.
Signed-off-by: Robert Olsson <robert.olsson@its.uu.se>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net')
-rw-r--r-- | net/ipv4/fib_trie.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/net/ipv4/fib_trie.c b/net/ipv4/fib_trie.c index 72b3036bbc09..ada9b3db507d 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/fib_trie.c +++ b/net/ipv4/fib_trie.c | |||
@@ -1527,7 +1527,6 @@ static int trie_leaf_remove(struct trie *t, t_key key) | |||
1527 | t->revision++; | 1527 | t->revision++; |
1528 | t->size--; | 1528 | t->size--; |
1529 | 1529 | ||
1530 | preempt_disable(); | ||
1531 | tp = NODE_PARENT(n); | 1530 | tp = NODE_PARENT(n); |
1532 | tnode_free((struct tnode *) n); | 1531 | tnode_free((struct tnode *) n); |
1533 | 1532 | ||
@@ -1537,7 +1536,6 @@ static int trie_leaf_remove(struct trie *t, t_key key) | |||
1537 | rcu_assign_pointer(t->trie, trie_rebalance(t, tp)); | 1536 | rcu_assign_pointer(t->trie, trie_rebalance(t, tp)); |
1538 | } else | 1537 | } else |
1539 | rcu_assign_pointer(t->trie, NULL); | 1538 | rcu_assign_pointer(t->trie, NULL); |
1540 | preempt_enable(); | ||
1541 | 1539 | ||
1542 | return 1; | 1540 | return 1; |
1543 | } | 1541 | } |