This adds comments to different places to improve
readability.
Signed-off-by: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* have to keep in mind all other pernet_operations and
* to introduce a locking, if they share common resources.
*
+ * The only time they are called with exclusive lock is
+ * from register_pernet_subsys(), unregister_pernet_subsys()
+ * register_pernet_device() and unregister_pernet_device().
+ *
* Exit methods using blocking RCU primitives, such as
* synchronize_rcu(), should be implemented via exit_batch.
* Then, destruction of a group of net requires single
/*
* pernet_ops_rwsem: protects: pernet_list, net_generic_ids,
* init_net_initialized and first_device pointer.
+ * This is internal net namespace object. Please, don't use it
+ * outside.
*/
DECLARE_RWSEM(pernet_ops_rwsem);
*/
void rtnl_link_unregister(struct rtnl_link_ops *ops)
{
- /* Close the race with cleanup_net() */
+ /* Close the race with setup_net() and cleanup_net() */
down_write(&pernet_ops_rwsem);
rtnl_lock_unregistering_all();
__rtnl_link_unregister(ops);