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Commit 6976a1d6 authored by Eric Dumazet's avatar Eric Dumazet Committed by David S. Miller
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net: percpu_counter_inc() should not be called in BH-disabled section

Based upon a lockdep report by Alexey Dobriyan.

I checked all per_cpu_counter_xxx() usages in network tree, and I
think all call sites are BH enabled except one in
inet_csk_listen_stop().

commit dd24c001


(net: Use a percpu_counter for orphan_count)
replaced atomic_t orphan_count to a percpu_counter.

atomic_inc()/atomic_dec() can be called from any context, while
percpu_counter_xxx() should be called from a consistent state.

For orphan_count, this context can be the BH-enabled one.

Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 422d9cdc
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