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[IPV4]: Do not disable preemption in trie_leaf_remove().

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Hello, Just discussed this Patrick...

We have two users of trie_leaf_remove, fn_trie_flush and fn_trie_delete
both are holding RTNL. So there shouldn't be need for this preempt stuff.
This is assumed to a leftover from an older RCU-take.

> Mhh .. I think I just remembered something - me incorrectly suggesting
> to add it there while we were talking about this at OLS :) IIRC the
> idea was to make sure tnode_free (which at that time didn't use
> call_rcu) wouldn't free memory while still in use in a rcu read-side
> critical section. It should have been synchronize_rcu of course,
> but with tnode_free using call_rcu it seems to be completely
> unnecessary. So I guess we can simply remove it.

Signed-off-by: Robert Olsson <robert.olsson@its.uu.se>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Robert Olsson 2007-03-16 15:00:07 -07:00 committed by David S. Miller
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@ -1527,7 +1527,6 @@ static int trie_leaf_remove(struct trie *t, t_key key)
t->revision++;
t->size--;
preempt_disable();
tp = NODE_PARENT(n);
tnode_free((struct tnode *) n);
@ -1537,7 +1536,6 @@ static int trie_leaf_remove(struct trie *t, t_key key)
rcu_assign_pointer(t->trie, trie_rebalance(t, tp));
} else
rcu_assign_pointer(t->trie, NULL);
preempt_enable();
return 1;
}