Commit 328771de authored by Eric Dumazet's avatar Eric Dumazet Committed by David S. Miller
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net: remove stale mentions of dev_base_lock in comments 



Change comments incorrectly mentioning dev_base_lock.

Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent e154bb7a

Documentation/networking/netdevices.rst

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@@ -252,8 +252,8 @@ ndo_eth_ioctl: 
	Context: process



ndo_get_stats:

	Synchronization: rtnl_lock() semaphore, dev_base_lock rwlock, or RCU.

	Context: atomic (can't sleep under rwlock or RCU)

	Synchronization: rtnl_lock() semaphore, or RCU.

	Context: atomic (can't sleep under RCU)



ndo_start_xmit:

	Synchronization: __netif_tx_lock spinlock.

drivers/net/ethernet/cisco/enic/enic_main.c

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@@ -872,7 +872,7 @@ static netdev_tx_t enic_hard_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, 
	return NETDEV_TX_OK;

}



/* dev_base_lock rwlock held, nominally process context */

/* rcu_read_lock potentially held, nominally process context */

static void enic_get_stats(struct net_device *netdev,

			   struct rtnl_link_stats64 *net_stats)

{

drivers/net/ethernet/nvidia/forcedeth.c

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@@ -1761,7 +1761,7 @@ static void nv_get_stats(int cpu, struct fe_priv *np, 
/*

 * nv_get_stats64: dev->ndo_get_stats64 function

 * Get latest stats value from the nic.

 * Called with read_lock(&dev_base_lock) held for read -

 * Called with rcu_read_lock() held -

 * only synchronized against unregister_netdevice.

 */

static void
@@ -3090,7 +3090,7 @@ static void set_bufsize(struct net_device *dev) 


/*

 * nv_change_mtu: dev->change_mtu function

 * Called with dev_base_lock held for read.

 * Called with RTNL held for read.

 */

static int nv_change_mtu(struct net_device *dev, int new_mtu)

{

drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/efx_common.c

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@@ -595,7 +595,7 @@ void efx_stop_all(struct efx_nic *efx) 
	efx_stop_datapath(efx);

}



/* Context: process, dev_base_lock or RTNL held, non-blocking. */

/* Context: process, rcu_read_lock or RTNL held, non-blocking. */

void efx_net_stats(struct net_device *net_dev, struct rtnl_link_stats64 *stats)

{

	struct efx_nic *efx = efx_netdev_priv(net_dev);

drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/falcon/efx.c

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@@ -2085,7 +2085,7 @@ int ef4_net_stop(struct net_device *net_dev) 
	return 0;

}



/* Context: process, dev_base_lock or RTNL held, non-blocking. */

/* Context: process, rcu_read_lock or RTNL held, non-blocking. */

static void ef4_net_stats(struct net_device *net_dev,

			  struct rtnl_link_stats64 *stats)

{