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This adds new pernet_operations::async flag to indicate operations, which ->init(), ->exit() and ->exit_batch() methods are allowed to be executed in parallel with the methods of any other pernet_operations. When there are only asynchronous pernet_operations in the system, net_mutex won't be taken for a net construction and destruction. Also, remove BUG_ON(mutex_is_locked()) from net_assign_generic() without replacing with the equivalent net_sem check, as there is one more lockdep assert below. v3: Add comment near net_mutex. Suggested-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com> Acked-by: Andrei Vagin <avagin@virtuozzo.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Linux kernel ============ This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file. Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.