Commit 44a0873d authored by Eric Dumazet's avatar Eric Dumazet Committed by David S. Miller

net: Introduce unregister_netdevice_queue()

This patchs adds an unreg_list anchor to struct net_device, and
introduces an unregister_netdevice_queue() function, able to queue
a net_device to a list instead of immediately unregister it.
Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 83ab50a5
...@@ -683,6 +683,7 @@ struct net_device ...@@ -683,6 +683,7 @@ struct net_device
struct list_head dev_list; struct list_head dev_list;
struct list_head napi_list; struct list_head napi_list;
struct list_head unreg_list;
/* Net device features */ /* Net device features */
unsigned long features; unsigned long features;
...@@ -1116,7 +1117,13 @@ extern int dev_close(struct net_device *dev); ...@@ -1116,7 +1117,13 @@ extern int dev_close(struct net_device *dev);
extern void dev_disable_lro(struct net_device *dev); extern void dev_disable_lro(struct net_device *dev);
extern int dev_queue_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb); extern int dev_queue_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb);
extern int register_netdevice(struct net_device *dev); extern int register_netdevice(struct net_device *dev);
extern void unregister_netdevice(struct net_device *dev); extern void unregister_netdevice_queue(struct net_device *dev,
struct list_head *head);
static inline void unregister_netdevice(struct net_device *dev)
{
unregister_netdevice_queue(dev, NULL);
}
extern void free_netdev(struct net_device *dev); extern void free_netdev(struct net_device *dev);
extern void synchronize_net(void); extern void synchronize_net(void);
extern int register_netdevice_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb); extern int register_netdevice_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb);
......
...@@ -5245,25 +5245,31 @@ void synchronize_net(void) ...@@ -5245,25 +5245,31 @@ void synchronize_net(void)
EXPORT_SYMBOL(synchronize_net); EXPORT_SYMBOL(synchronize_net);
/** /**
* unregister_netdevice - remove device from the kernel * unregister_netdevice_queue - remove device from the kernel
* @dev: device * @dev: device
* * @head: list
* This function shuts down a device interface and removes it * This function shuts down a device interface and removes it
* from the kernel tables. * from the kernel tables.
* If head not NULL, device is queued to be unregistered later.
* *
* Callers must hold the rtnl semaphore. You may want * Callers must hold the rtnl semaphore. You may want
* unregister_netdev() instead of this. * unregister_netdev() instead of this.
*/ */
void unregister_netdevice(struct net_device *dev) void unregister_netdevice_queue(struct net_device *dev, struct list_head *head)
{ {
ASSERT_RTNL(); ASSERT_RTNL();
if (head) {
list_add_tail(&dev->unreg_list, head);
} else {
rollback_registered(dev); rollback_registered(dev);
/* Finish processing unregister after unlock */ /* Finish processing unregister after unlock */
net_set_todo(dev); net_set_todo(dev);
}
} }
EXPORT_SYMBOL(unregister_netdevice); EXPORT_SYMBOL(unregister_netdevice_queue);
/** /**
* unregister_netdev - remove device from the kernel * unregister_netdev - remove device from the kernel
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