From: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangc...@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2017 13:36:24 -0700
> Laura reported a sleep-in-atomic kernel warning inside > tcf_act_police_init() which calls gen_replace_estimator() with > spinlock protection. > > It is not necessary in this case, we already have RTNL lock here > so it is enough to protect concurrent writers. For the reader, > i.e. tcf_act_police(), it needs to make decision based on this > rate estimator, in the worst case we drop more/less packets than > necessary while changing the rate in parallel, it is still acceptable. > > Reported-by: Laura Abbott <labb...@redhat.com> > Reported-by: Nick Huber <nicholashu...@gmail.com> > Cc: Jamal Hadi Salim <j...@mojatatu.com> > Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangc...@gmail.com> Applied, thanks.
