forked from luck/tmp_suning_uos_patched
5f56f409b5
The current mechanism of freeing dst is a bit complicated. dst has its ref count and when user grabs the reference to the dst, the ref count is properly taken in most cases except in IPv4/IPv6/decnet/xfrm routing code due to some historic reasons. If the reference to dst is always taken properly, we should be able to simplify the logic in dst_release() to destroy dst when dst->__refcnt drops from 1 to 0. And this should be the only condition to determine if we can call dst_destroy(). And as dst is always ref counted, there is no need for a dst garbage list to hold the dst entries that already get removed by the routing code but are still held by other users. And the task to periodically check the list to free dst if ref count become 0 is also not needed anymore. This patch introduces a temporary flag DST_NOGC(no garbage collector). If it is set in the dst, dst_release() will call dst_destroy() when dst->__refcnt drops to 0. dst_hold_safe() will also check for this flag and do atomic_inc_not_zero() similar as DST_NOCACHE to avoid double free issue. This temporary flag is mainly used so that we can make the transition component by component without breaking other parts. This flag will be removed after all components are properly transitioned. This patch also introduces a new function dst_release_immediate() which destroys dst without waiting on the rcu when refcnt drops to 0. It will be used in later patches. Follow-up patches will correct all the places to properly take ref count on dst and mark DST_NOGC. dst_release() or dst_release_immediate() will be used to release the dst instead of dst_free() and its related functions. And final clean-up patch will remove the DST_NOGC flag. Signed-off-by: Wei Wang <weiwan@google.com> Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@fb.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> |
||
|---|---|---|
| arch | ||
| block | ||
| certs | ||
| crypto | ||
| Documentation | ||
| drivers | ||
| firmware | ||
| fs | ||
| include | ||
| init | ||
| ipc | ||
| kernel | ||
| lib | ||
| mm | ||
| net | ||
| samples | ||
| scripts | ||
| security | ||
| sound | ||
| tools | ||
| usr | ||
| virt | ||
| .cocciconfig | ||
| .get_maintainer.ignore | ||
| .gitattributes | ||
| .gitignore | ||
| .mailmap | ||
| COPYING | ||
| CREDITS | ||
| Kbuild | ||
| Kconfig | ||
| MAINTAINERS | ||
| Makefile | ||
| README | ||
Linux kernel ============ This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file. Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.