On Fri, 23 Mar 2018 06:29:55 -0700
Eric Dumazet <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 03/23/2018 05:18 AM, Jesper Dangaard Brouer wrote:
>
> > +
> > +void page_pool_destroy_rcu(struct page_pool *pool)
> > +{
> > + call_rcu(&pool->rcu, __page_pool_destroy_rcu);
> > +}
> > +EXPORT_SYMBOL(page_pool_destroy_rcu);
> >
>
>
> Why do we need to respect one rcu grace period before destroying a page pool ?
Due to previous allocator ID patch, which can have a pointer reference
to a page_pool, and the allocator ID lookup uses RCU.
> In any case, this should be called page_pool_destroy()
Okay.
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Best regards,
Jesper Dangaard Brouer
MSc.CS, Principal Kernel Engineer at Red Hat
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