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The goal is to break RTNL down into per-netns mutex. This patch adds per-netns mutex and its helper functions, rtnl_net_lock() and rtnl_net_unlock(). rtnl_net_lock() acquires the global RTNL and per-netns RTNL mutex, and rtnl_net_unlock() releases them. We will replace 800+ rtnl_lock() with rtnl_net_lock() and finally removes rtnl_lock() in rtnl_net_lock(). When we need to nest per-netns RTNL mutex, we will use __rtnl_net_lock(), and its locking order is defined by rtnl_net_lock_cmp_fn() as follows: 1. init_net is first 2. netns address ascending order Note that the conversion will be done under CONFIG_DEBUG_NET_SMALL_RTNL with LOCKDEP so that we can carefully add the extra mutex without slowing down RTNL operations during conversion. Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@amazon.com> Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
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