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Florian Westphal 8c873e2199 netfilter: core: free hooks with call_rcu
Giuseppe Scrivano says:
  "SELinux, if enabled, registers for each new network namespace 6
    netfilter hooks."

Cost for this is high.  With synchronize_net() removed:
   "The net benefit on an SMP machine with two cores is that creating a
   new network namespace takes -40% of the original time."

This patch replaces synchronize_net+kvfree with call_rcu().
We store rcu_head at the tail of a structure that has no fixed layout,
i.e. we cannot use offsetof() to compute the start of the original
allocation.  Thus store this information right after the rcu head.

We could simplify this by just placing the rcu_head at the start
of struct nf_hook_entries.  However, this structure is used in
packet processing hotpath, so only place what is needed for that
at the beginning of the struct.

Reported-by: Giuseppe Scrivano <gscrivan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
2018-01-08 18:01:07 +01:00
arch s390/diag: add diag26c support for VNIC info 2018-01-02 13:52:23 -05:00
block block-throttle: avoid double charge 2017-12-20 11:10:17 -07:00
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crypto Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2017-12-22 12:22:48 -08:00
Documentation Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2017-12-29 15:42:26 -05:00
drivers Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next 2018-01-07 21:26:31 -05:00
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fs nsfs: generalize ns_get_path() for path resolution with a task 2017-12-31 16:12:23 +01:00
include netfilter: core: free hooks with call_rcu 2018-01-08 18:01:07 +01:00
init Merge branch 'x86-pti-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-12-23 11:53:04 -08:00
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kernel bpf: implement syscall command BPF_MAP_GET_NEXT_KEY for stacktrace map 2018-01-06 23:52:22 +01:00
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mm Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block 2017-12-21 11:13:37 -08:00
net netfilter: core: free hooks with call_rcu 2018-01-08 18:01:07 +01:00
samples samples/bpf: program demonstrating access to xdp_rxq_info 2018-01-05 15:21:22 -08:00
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sound ALSA: hda - Fix missing COEF init for ALC225/295/299 2017-12-27 08:53:59 +01:00
tools selftests: fib_tests: Add test cases for netdev carrier change 2018-01-07 21:29:41 -05:00
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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
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There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
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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.