Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 22 Nov 2000 03:27:17 -0800 | From | "David S. Miller" <> | Subject | Re: [BUG] 2.2.1[78] : RTNETLINK lock not properly locking ? |
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Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 12:27:57 +0100 (MET) From: Willy Tarreau <willy.lkml@free.fr>
Quoting "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>:
> All of this is protected by lock_kernel() so none of the > A,B,C,whatever spots can be interrupted in 2.2.x
so, does this mean that rtnl_*lock* are completely useless ???
No, it guarentees that only one process may be in the middle of modifying interface configuration state, the same and only guarentee it makes in 2.4.x as well.
Later, David S. Miller davem@redhat.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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