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2010-08-04Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6Linus Torvalds3-100/+493
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6: (1443 commits) phy/marvell: add 88ec048 support igb: Program MDICNFG register prior to PHY init e1000e: correct MAC-PHY interconnect register offset for 82579 hso: Add new product ID can: Add driver for esd CAN-USB/2 device l2tp: fix export of header file for userspace can-raw: Fix skb_orphan_try handling Revert "net: remove zap_completion_queue" net: cleanup inclusion phy/marvell: add 88e1121 interface mode support u32: negative offset fix net: Fix a typo from "dev" to "ndev" igb: Use irq_synchronize per vector when using MSI-X ixgbevf: fix null pointer dereference due to filter being set for VLAN 0 e1000e: Fix irq_synchronize in MSI-X case e1000e: register pm_qos request on hardware activation ip_fragment: fix subtracting PPPOE_SES_HLEN from mtu twice net: Add getsockopt support for TCP thin-streams cxgb4: update driver version cxgb4: add new PCI IDs ... Manually fix up conflicts in: - drivers/net/e1000e/netdev.c: due to pm_qos registration infrastructure changes - drivers/net/phy/marvell.c: conflict between adding 88ec048 support and cleaning up the IDs - drivers/net/wireless/ipw2x00/ipw2100.c: trivial ipw2100_pm_qos_req conflict (registration change vs marking it static)
2010-07-28vhost-net: mergeable buffers supportDavid Stevens3-18/+315
This adds support for mergeable buffers in vhost-net: this is needed for older guests without indirect buffer support, as well as for zero copy with some devices. Includes changes by Michael S. Tsirkin to make the patch as low risk as possible (i.e., close to no changes when feature is disabled). Signed-off-by: David Stevens <dlstevens@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2010-07-28vhost: apply cgroup to vhost workersMichael S. Tsirkin1-0/+6
Apply the cgroup of the owner task to the created vhost worker. Based on patches from Sridhar Samudrala's and Tejun Heo. Later we'll need to also apply cpumask and probably priority of the owner process. Discussion on the best way to do this is still ongoing. Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Sridhar Samudrala <samudrala.sridhar@gmail.com> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
2010-07-28vhost: replace vhost_workqueue with per-vhost kthreadTejun Heo3-73/+164
Replace vhost_workqueue with per-vhost kthread. Other than callback argument change from struct work_struct * to struct vhost_work *, there's no visible change to vhost_poll_*() interface. This conversion is to make each vhost use a dedicated kthread so that resource control via cgroup can be applied. Partially based on Sridhar Samudrala's patch. * Updated to use sub structure vhost_work instead of directly using vhost_poll at Michael's suggestion. * Added flusher wake_up() optimization at Michael's suggestion. Changes by MST: * Converted atomics/barrier use to a spinlock. * Create thread on SET_OWNER * Fix flushing Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Cc: Sridhar Samudrala <samudrala.sridhar@gmail.com>
2010-07-22vhost net: Fix warning.David S. Miller1-1/+0
Reported by Stephen Rothwell. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-07-21Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller1-5/+11
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 Conflicts: drivers/vhost/net.c net/bridge/br_device.c Fix merge conflict in drivers/vhost/net.c with guidance from Stephen Rothwell. Revert the effects of net-2.6 commit 573201f36fd9c7c6d5218cdcd9948cee700b277d since net-next-2.6 has fixes that make bridge netpoll work properly thus we don't need it disabled. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-07-21Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6Linus Torvalds1-4/+9
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (24 commits) bridge: Partially disable netpoll support tcp: fix crash in tcp_xmit_retransmit_queue IPv6: fix CoA check in RH2 input handler (mip6_rthdr_input()) ibmveth: lost IRQ while closing/opening device leads to service loss rt2x00: Fix lockdep warning in rt2x00lib_probe_dev() vhost: avoid pr_err on condition guest can trigger ipmr: Don't leak memory if fib lookup fails. vhost-net: avoid flush under lock net: fix problem in reading sock TX queue net/core: neighbour update Oops net: skb_tx_hash() fix relative to skb_orphan_try() rfs: call sock_rps_record_flow() in tcp_splice_read() xfrm: do not assume that template resolving always returns xfrms hostap_pci: set dev->base_addr during probe axnet_cs: use spin_lock_irqsave in ax_interrupt dsa: Fix Kconfig dependencies. act_nat: not all of the ICMP packets need an IP header payload r8169: incorrect identifier for a 8168dp Phonet: fix skb leak in pipe endpoint accept() Bluetooth: Update sec_level/auth_type for already existing connections ...
2010-07-16vhost: avoid pr_err on condition guest can triggerMichael S. Tsirkin1-4/+4
Guest can trigger packet truncation by posting a very short buffer and disabling buffer merging. Convert pr_err to pr_debug to avoid log from filling up when this happens. Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2010-07-15vhost-net: avoid flush under lockMichael S. Tsirkin1-0/+5
We flush under vq mutex when changing backends. This creates a deadlock as workqueue being flushed needs this lock as well. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=612421 Drop the vq mutex before flush: we have the device mutex which is sufficient to prevent another ioctl from touching the vq. Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2010-07-08Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6Linus Torvalds3-48/+58
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (35 commits) NET: SB1250: Initialize .owner vxge: show startup message with KERN_INFO ll_temac: Fix missing iounmaps bridge: Clear IPCB before possible entry into IP stack bridge br_multicast: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference net: Fix definition of netif_vdbg() when VERBOSE_DEBUG is defined net/ne: fix memory leak in ne_drv_probe() xfrm: fix xfrm by MARK logic virtio_net: fix oom handling on tx virtio_net: do not reschedule rx refill forever s2io: resolve statistics issues linux/net.h: fix kernel-doc warnings net: decreasing real_num_tx_queues needs to flush qdisc sched: qdisc_reset_all_tx is calling qdisc_reset without qdisc_lock qlge: fix a eeh handler to not add a pending timer qlge: Replacing add_timer() to mod_timer() usbnet: Set parent device early for netdev_printk() net: Revert "rndis_host: Poll status channel before control channel" netfilter: ip6t_REJECT: fix a dst leak in ipv6 REJECT drivers: bluetooth: bluecard_cs.c: Fixed include error, changed to linux/io.h ...
2010-07-08Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller3-48/+58
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
2010-07-01vhost: add unlikely annotations to error pathMichael S. Tsirkin2-28/+29
patch 'break out of polling loop on error' caused a minor performance regression on my machine: recover that performance by adding a bunch of unlikely annotations in the error handling. Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2010-06-27vhost: break out of polling loop on errorMichael S. Tsirkin3-22/+31
When ring parsing fails, we currently handle this as ring empty condition. This means that we enable kicks and recheck ring empty: if this not empty, we re-start polling which of course will fail again. Instead, let's return a negative error code and stop polling. Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2010-06-09misc: Fix allocation 'borrowed' by vhost_netAlan Cox1-1/+1
10, 233 is allocated officially to /dev/kmview which is shipping in Ubuntu and Debian distributions. vhost_net seem to have borrowed it without making a proper request and this causes regressions in the other distributions. vhost_net can use a dynamic minor so use that instead. Also update the file with a comment to try and avoid future misunderstandings. cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <device@lanana.org> [ We should have caught this before 2.6.34 got released. - Linus ] Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-06-02Merge branch 'vhost-net-next' of ↵David S. Miller2-9/+8
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mst/vhost
2010-05-28Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6Linus Torvalds2-32/+39
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (22 commits) netlink: bug fix: wrong size was calculated for vfinfo list blob netlink: bug fix: don't overrun skbs on vf_port dump xt_tee: use skb_dst_drop() netdev/fec: fix ifconfig eth0 down hang issue cnic: Fix context memory init. on 5709. drivers/net: Eliminate a NULL pointer dereference drivers/net/hamradio: Eliminate a NULL pointer dereference be2net: Patch removes redundant while statement in loop. ipv6: Add GSO support on forwarding path net: fix __neigh_event_send() vhost: fix the memory leak which will happen when memory_access_ok fails vhost-net: fix to check the return value of copy_to/from_user() correctly vhost: fix to check the return value of copy_to/from_user() correctly vhost: Fix host panic if ioctl called with wrong index net: fix lock_sock_bh/unlock_sock_bh net/iucv: Add missing spin_unlock net: ll_temac: fix checksum offload logic net: ll_temac: fix interrupt bug when interrupt 0 is used sctp: dubious bitfields in sctp_transport ipmr: off by one in __ipmr_fill_mroute() ...
2010-05-27vhost: fix the memory leak which will happen when memory_access_ok failsTakuya Yoshikawa1-1/+3
We need to free newmem when vhost_set_memory() fails to complete. Signed-off-by: Takuya Yoshikawa <yoshikawa.takuya@oss.ntt.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2010-05-27vhost-net: fix to check the return value of copy_to/from_user() correctlyTakuya Yoshikawa1-7/+7
copy_to/from_user() returns the number of bytes that could not be copied. So we need to check if it is not zero, and in that case, we should return the error number -EFAULT rather than directly return the return value from copy_to/from_user(). Signed-off-by: Takuya Yoshikawa <yoshikawa.takuya@oss.ntt.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2010-05-27vhost: fix to check the return value of copy_to/from_user() correctlyTakuya Yoshikawa1-23/+28
copy_to/from_user() returns the number of bytes that could not be copied. So we need to check if it is not zero, and in that case, we should return the error number -EFAULT rather than directly return the return value from copy_to/from_user(). Signed-off-by: Takuya Yoshikawa <yoshikawa.takuya@oss.ntt.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2010-05-27vhost: whitespace fixMichael S. Tsirkin1-2/+2
Fix up whitespace in vq_memory_access_ok. Reported-by: Aristeu Rozanski <aris@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2010-05-27vhost-net: minor cleanupJeff Dike1-6/+5
Delete a label and goto from vhost_net_set_backend Inverting a test allows a label and goto to be eliminated. Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2010-05-27vhost: Storage class should be before const qualifierTobias Klauser1-1/+1
The C99 specification states in section 6.11.5: The placement of a storage-class specifier other than at the beginning of the declaration specifiers in a declaration is an obsolescent feature. Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@distanz.ch> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2010-05-27vhost: Fix host panic if ioctl called with wrong indexKrishna Kumar1-1/+1
Missed a boundary value check in vhost_set_vring. The host panics if idx == nvqs is used in ioctl commands in vhost_virtqueue_init. Signed-off-by: Krishna Kumar <krkumar2@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2010-05-25kernel-wide: replace USHORT_MAX, SHORT_MAX and SHORT_MIN with USHRT_MAX, ↵Alexey Dobriyan1-1/+1
SHRT_MAX and SHRT_MIN - C99 knows about USHRT_MAX/SHRT_MAX/SHRT_MIN, not USHORT_MAX/SHORT_MAX/SHORT_MIN. - Make SHRT_MIN of type s16, not int, for consistency. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix drivers/dma/timb_dma.c] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix security/keys/keyring.c] Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Acked-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-05-17Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller1-1/+6
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 Conflicts: include/linux/if_link.h
2010-05-12vhost: fix barrier pairingMichael S. Tsirkin1-1/+6
According to memory-barriers.txt, an smp memory barrier in guest should always be paired with an smp memory barrier in host, and I quote "a lack of appropriate pairing is almost certainly an error". In case of vhost, failure to flush out used index update before looking at the interrupt disable flag could result in missed interrupts, resulting in networking hang under stress. This might happen when flags read bypasses used index write. So we see interrupts disabled and do not interrupt, at the same time guest writes flags value to enable interrupt, reads an old used index value, thinks that used ring is empty and waits for interrupt. Note: the barrier we pair with here is in drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c, function vring_enable_cb. Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Acked-by: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
2010-04-15Merge branch 'vhost' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mst/vhostDavid S. Miller2-7/+8
2010-04-14vhost: fix sparse warningsChristoph Hellwig2-7/+8
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2010-04-11Merge branch 'master' of /home/davem/src/GIT/linux-2.6/David S. Miller2-0/+2
2010-04-07vhost-net: fix vq_memory_access_ok error checkingJeff Dike1-0/+4
vq_memory_access_ok needs to check whether mem == NULL Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2010-03-30include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking ↵Tejun Heo2-0/+2
implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being included when building most .c files. percpu.h includes slab.h which in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies. percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed. Prepare for this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those headers directly instead of assuming availability. As this conversion needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is used as the basis of conversion. http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py The script does the followings. * Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that only the necessary includes are there. ie. if only gfp is used, gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h. * When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms to its surrounding. It's put in the include block which contains core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered - alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there doesn't seem to be any matching order. * If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the file. The conversion was done in the following steps. 1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h and ~3000 slab.h inclusions. The script emitted errors for ~400 files. 2. Each error was manually checked. Some didn't need the inclusion, some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or embedding .c file was more appropriate for others. This step added inclusions to around 150 files. 3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits from #2 to make sure no file was left behind. 4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed. e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually. 5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell. Most gfp.h inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros. Each slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as necessary. 6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h. 7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures were fixed. CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq). * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config. * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig * ia64 SMP allmodconfig * s390 SMP allmodconfig * alpha SMP allmodconfig * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig 8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as a separate patch and serve as bisection point. Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step 6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch. If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of the specific arch. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
2010-03-18vhost: fix error handling in vring ioctlsMichael S. Tsirkin1-6/+12
Stanse found a locking problem in vhost_set_vring: several returns from VHOST_SET_VRING_KICK, VHOST_SET_VRING_CALL, VHOST_SET_VRING_ERR with the vq->mutex held. Fix these up. Reported-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> Acked-by: Laurent Chavey <chavey@google.com> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2010-03-17vhost: fix interrupt mitigation with raw socketsMichael S. Tsirkin1-1/+1
A thinko in code means we never trigger interrupt mitigation. Fix this. Reported-by: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com> Reported-by: Unai Uribarri <unai.uribarri@optenet.com> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2010-03-07vhost: fix error path in vhost_net_set_backendJeff Dike1-3/+5
An error could cause vhost_net_set_backend to exit without unlocking vq->mutex. Fix this. Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2010-02-28vhost-net: restart tx poll on sk_sndbuf fullSridhar Samudrala1-1/+5
guest to remote communication with vhost net sometimes stops until guest driver is restarted. This happens when we get guest kick precisely when the backend send queue is full, as a result handle_tx() returns without polling backend. This patch fixes this by restarting tx poll on this condition. Signed-off-by: Sridhar Samudrala <samudrala@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Tested-by: Tom Lendacky <toml@us.ibm.com>
2010-02-28vhost: fix get_user_pages_fast error handlingMichael S. Tsirkin1-1/+2
get_user_pages_fast returns number of pages on success, negative value on failure, but never 0. Fix vhost code to match this logic. Reviewed-by: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2010-02-28vhost: initialize log eventfd context pointerMichael S. Tsirkin1-0/+1
vq log eventfd context pointer needs to be initialized, otherwise operation may fail or oops if log is enabled but log eventfd not set by userspace. When log_ctx for device is created, it is copied to the vq. This reset was missing. Reviewed-by: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2010-02-28vhost: logging thinko fixMichael S. Tsirkin1-4/+8
vhost was dong some complex math to get offset to log at, and got it wrong by a couple of bytes, while in fact it's simple: get address where we write, subtract start of buffer, add log base. Do it this way. Reviewed-by: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2010-02-19net/macvtap: add vhost supportArnd Bergmann2-3/+7
This adds support for passing a macvtap file descriptor into vhost-net, much like we already do for tun/tap. Most of the new code is taken from the respective patch in the tun driver and may get consolidated in the future. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Acked-by: Sridhar Samudrala <sri@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-02-15vhost-net: switch to smp barriersMichael S. Tsirkin1-5/+5
vhost-net only uses memory barriers to control SMP effects (communication with userspace potentially running on a different CPU), so it should use SMP barriers and not mandatory barriers for memory access ordering, as suggested by Documentation/memory-barriers.txt Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-01-21vhost: fix TUN=m VHOST_NET=yMichael S. Tsirkin1-1/+1
drivers/built-in.o: In function `get_tun_socket': net.c:(.text+0x15436e): undefined reference to `tun_get_socket' If tun is a module, vhost must be a module, too. If tun is built-in or disabled, vhost can be built-in. Note: TUN || !TUN might look a bit strange until you realize that boolean logic rules do not apply for tristate variables. Reported-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-01-15vhost_net: a kernel-level virtio serverMichael S. Tsirkin5-0/+1933
What it is: vhost net is a character device that can be used to reduce the number of system calls involved in virtio networking. Existing virtio net code is used in the guest without modification. There's similarity with vringfd, with some differences and reduced scope - uses eventfd for signalling - structures can be moved around in memory at any time (good for migration, bug work-arounds in userspace) - write logging is supported (good for migration) - support memory table and not just an offset (needed for kvm) common virtio related code has been put in a separate file vhost.c and can be made into a separate module if/when more backends appear. I used Rusty's lguest.c as the source for developing this part : this supplied me with witty comments I wouldn't be able to write myself. What it is not: vhost net is not a bus, and not a generic new system call. No assumptions are made on how guest performs hypercalls. Userspace hypervisors are supported as well as kvm. How it works: Basically, we connect virtio frontend (configured by userspace) to a backend. The backend could be a network device, or a tap device. Backend is also configured by userspace, including vlan/mac etc. Status: This works for me, and I haven't see any crashes. Compared to userspace, people reported improved latency (as I save up to 4 system calls per packet), as well as better bandwidth and CPU utilization. Features that I plan to look at in the future: - mergeable buffers - zero copy - scalability tuning: figure out the best threading model to use Note on RCU usage (this is also documented in vhost.h, near private_pointer which is the value protected by this variant of RCU): what is happening is that the rcu_dereference() is being used in a workqueue item. The role of rcu_read_lock() is taken on by the start of execution of the workqueue item, of rcu_read_unlock() by the end of execution of the workqueue item, and of synchronize_rcu() by flush_workqueue()/flush_work(). In the future we might need to apply some gcc attribute or sparse annotation to the function passed to INIT_WORK(). Paul's ack below is for this RCU usage. (Includes fixes by Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>, David L Stevens <dlstevens@us.ibm.com>, Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>) Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Acked-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>