[ovs-git] Open vSwitch: datapath: Fix recv path for CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU. (master)

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commit 8a5d84f621f23ea2594248410641c037e9bc919d
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Author: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar at nicira.com>
		
datapath: Fix recv path for CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU.
		
        In case CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU, rcu grace period waits only for RCU
read-side critical sections that are delimited by rcu_read_lock() and
rcu_read_unlock(). internal_dev_xmit() is called in
rcu_read_lock_bh context. Therefore we need to explicitly take rcu
lock to prevent race with call_rcu() in PREEMPT_RCU case.

Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar at nicira.com>
Acked-by: Jesse Gross <jesse at nicira.com>


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Summary of changes:
 datapath/vport-internal_dev.c |    4 +++-
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)


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