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| author | Allan Stephens <allan.stephens@windriver.com> | 2011-10-18 14:47:02 -0400 |
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| committer | Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> | 2011-12-27 11:33:40 -0500 |
| commit | bfec73d7e45cdf570d649a547050295789e1e6fb (patch) | |
| tree | 5dad32b2f41b1c250a60c88fc5f4877253b88d13 /net | |
| parent | 5c216e1d28c82332db0fa53e30536577fb6130c6 (diff) | |
tipc: Revise comment justifying release of configuration spinlock
Comment-only change to better explain why TIPC's configuration lock is
temporarily released while activating support for network interfaces,
and why the existing activation code doesn't require rework.
Signed-off-by: Allan Stephens <allan.stephens@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'net')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/tipc/config.c | 13 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/net/tipc/config.c b/net/tipc/config.c index b25a396b7e1..4785bf26cdf 100644 --- a/net/tipc/config.c +++ b/net/tipc/config.c @@ -184,13 +184,12 @@ static struct sk_buff *cfg_set_own_addr(void) " (cannot change node address once assigned)"); /* - * Must release all spinlocks before calling start_net() because - * Linux version of TIPC calls eth_media_start() which calls - * register_netdevice_notifier() which may block! - * - * Temporarily releasing the lock should be harmless for non-Linux TIPC, - * but Linux version of eth_media_start() should really be reworked - * so that it can be called with spinlocks held. + * Must temporarily release configuration spinlock while switching into + * networking mode as it calls tipc_eth_media_start(), which may sleep. + * Releasing the lock is harmless as other locally-issued configuration + * commands won't occur until this one completes, and remotely-issued + * configuration commands can't be received until a local configuration + * command to enable the first bearer is received and processed. */ spin_unlock_bh(&config_lock); |