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authorVlad Buslov <vladbu@mellanox.com>2018-09-24 19:22:54 +0300
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2018-09-25 20:17:36 -0700
commitcfebd7e242d7193a9901222b3e667788810d98c1 (patch)
treef7b045d12317526af5a5258266af33b5616387ab /include/net/sch_generic.h
parente368fdb61d8e7c67ac70791b23345b26d7bbc661 (diff)
net: sched: change tcf block reference counter type to refcount_t
As a preparation for removing rtnl lock dependency from rules update path, change tcf block reference counter type to refcount_t to allow modification by concurrent users. In block put function perform decrement and check reference counter once to accommodate concurrent modification by unlocked users. After this change tcf_chain_put at the end of block put function is called with block->refcnt==0 and will deallocate block after the last chain is released, so there is no need to manually deallocate block in this case. However, if block reference counter reached 0 and there are no chains to release, block must still be deallocated manually. Signed-off-by: Vlad Buslov <vladbu@mellanox.com> Acked-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/net/sch_generic.h')
-rw-r--r--include/net/sch_generic.h2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/net/sch_generic.h b/include/net/sch_generic.h
index 43b17f82d8ee..4a86f4d33f07 100644
--- a/include/net/sch_generic.h
+++ b/include/net/sch_generic.h
@@ -345,7 +345,7 @@ struct tcf_chain {
struct tcf_block {
struct list_head chain_list;
u32 index; /* block index for shared blocks */
- unsigned int refcnt;
+ refcount_t refcnt;
struct net *net;
struct Qdisc *q;
struct list_head cb_list;