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authorBenjamin Thery <benjamin.thery@bull.net>2007-11-19 23:18:16 -0800
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2008-01-28 14:54:35 -0800
commit3ef1355dcb8551730cc71e9ef4363f5c66ccad17 (patch)
treecd17815dd88eb923b480547efe862ed2ce5f0290 /net
parent85b606800be20ceeca36bd8594c1eb228d2fb2f4 (diff)
[NET]: Make netns cleanup to run in a separate queue
This patch adds a separate workqueue for cleaning up a network namespace. If we use the keventd workqueue to execute cleanup_net(), there is a problem to unregister devices in IPv6. Indeed the code that cleans up also schedule work in keventd: as long as cleanup_net() hasn't return, dst_gc_task() cannot run and as long as dst_gc_task() has not run, there are still some references pending on the net devices and cleanup_net() can not unregister and exit the keventd workqueue. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Thery <benjamin.thery@bull.net> Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@fr.ibm.com> Acked-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org> Acked-By: Kirill Korotaev <dev@sw.ru> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net')
-rw-r--r--net/core/net_namespace.c9
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/net_namespace.c b/net/core/net_namespace.c
index ec936ae9245..26e941d912e 100644
--- a/net/core/net_namespace.c
+++ b/net/core/net_namespace.c
@@ -58,6 +58,7 @@ out_undo:
#ifdef CONFIG_NET_NS
static struct kmem_cache *net_cachep;
+static struct workqueue_struct *netns_wq;
static struct net *net_alloc(void)
{
@@ -149,7 +150,7 @@ void __put_net(struct net *net)
{
/* Cleanup the network namespace in process context */
INIT_WORK(&net->work, cleanup_net);
- schedule_work(&net->work);
+ queue_work(netns_wq, &net->work);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__put_net);
@@ -171,7 +172,13 @@ static int __init net_ns_init(void)
net_cachep = kmem_cache_create("net_namespace", sizeof(struct net),
SMP_CACHE_BYTES,
SLAB_PANIC, NULL);
+
+ /* Create workqueue for cleanup */
+ netns_wq = create_singlethread_workqueue("netns");
+ if (!netns_wq)
+ panic("Could not create netns workq");
#endif
+
mutex_lock(&net_mutex);
err = setup_net(&init_net);