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| author | Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org> | 2008-07-08 03:05:28 -0700 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2008-07-08 03:05:28 -0700 |
| commit | 81c684d12ddc05bba4953e36e9cdd5939dde344b (patch) | |
| tree | 397ffc2a3e00f07d1cdda8707cf36bf3ca43268a /net/ipv4/route.c | |
| parent | 2c693610fe923764fe41b846fb86938a2010da6e (diff) | |
| download | linux-81c684d12ddc05bba4953e36e9cdd5939dde344b.tar.bz2 | |
ipv4: remove flush_mutex from ipv4_sysctl_rtcache_flush
It is possible to avoid locking at all in ipv4_sysctl_rtcache_flush by
defining local ctl_table on the stack.
The patch is based on the suggestion from Eric W. Biederman.
Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/ipv4/route.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/ipv4/route.c | 14 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/net/ipv4/route.c b/net/ipv4/route.c index 113cd2512ba7..79c1e74263a1 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/route.c +++ b/net/ipv4/route.c @@ -2873,22 +2873,20 @@ void ip_rt_multicast_event(struct in_device *in_dev) } #ifdef CONFIG_SYSCTL -static int ipv4_sysctl_rtcache_flush(ctl_table *ctl, int write, +static int ipv4_sysctl_rtcache_flush(ctl_table *__ctl, int write, struct file *filp, void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos) { if (write) { int flush_delay; + ctl_table ctl; struct net *net; - static DEFINE_MUTEX(flush_mutex); - mutex_lock(&flush_mutex); - ctl->data = &flush_delay; - proc_dointvec(ctl, write, filp, buffer, lenp, ppos); - ctl->data = NULL; - mutex_unlock(&flush_mutex); + memcpy(&ctl, __ctl, sizeof(ctl)); + ctl.data = &flush_delay; + proc_dointvec(&ctl, write, filp, buffer, lenp, ppos); - net = (struct net *)ctl->extra1; + net = (struct net *)__ctl->extra1; rt_cache_flush(net, flush_delay); return 0; } |