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| author | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2019-12-25 10:41:37 +0100 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2019-12-25 10:41:37 +0100 |
| commit | 1e5f8a308551b9816588e12bb795aeadebe37c4a (patch) | |
| tree | bd71fc796fed24a3b7cc99df4a1d1bdaecc2b387 /include/linux/netdevice.h | |
| parent | a5e37de90e67ac1072a9a44bd0cec9f5e98ded08 (diff) | |
| parent | 46cf053efec6a3a5f343fead837777efe8252a46 (diff) | |
Merge tag 'v5.5-rc3' into sched/core, to pick up fixes
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/netdevice.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/netdevice.h | 7 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/netdevice.h b/include/linux/netdevice.h index cf0923579af4..ae5e260911e2 100644 --- a/include/linux/netdevice.h +++ b/include/linux/netdevice.h @@ -1775,7 +1775,7 @@ enum netdev_priv_flags { * for hardware timestamping * @sfp_bus: attached &struct sfp_bus structure. * @qdisc_tx_busylock_key: lockdep class annotating Qdisc->busylock - spinlock + * spinlock * @qdisc_running_key: lockdep class annotating Qdisc->running seqcount * @qdisc_xmit_lock_key: lockdep class annotating * netdev_queue->_xmit_lock spinlock @@ -1881,6 +1881,11 @@ struct net_device { unsigned char if_port; unsigned char dma; + /* Note : dev->mtu is often read without holding a lock. + * Writers usually hold RTNL. + * It is recommended to use READ_ONCE() to annotate the reads, + * and to use WRITE_ONCE() to annotate the writes. + */ unsigned int mtu; unsigned int min_mtu; unsigned int max_mtu; |