Commit 8518e9bb authored by Kirill Tkhai's avatar Kirill Tkhai Committed by David S. Miller

net: Add more comments

This adds comments to different places to improve
readability.
Signed-off-by: default avatarKirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 4420bf21
......@@ -323,6 +323,10 @@ struct pernet_operations {
* have to keep in mind all other pernet_operations and
* to introduce a locking, if they share common resources.
*
* The only time they are called with exclusive lock is
* from register_pernet_subsys(), unregister_pernet_subsys()
* register_pernet_device() and unregister_pernet_device().
*
* Exit methods using blocking RCU primitives, such as
* synchronize_rcu(), should be implemented via exit_batch.
* Then, destruction of a group of net requires single
......
......@@ -43,6 +43,8 @@ static bool init_net_initialized;
/*
* pernet_ops_rwsem: protects: pernet_list, net_generic_ids,
* init_net_initialized and first_device pointer.
* This is internal net namespace object. Please, don't use it
* outside.
*/
DECLARE_RWSEM(pernet_ops_rwsem);
......
......@@ -459,7 +459,7 @@ static void rtnl_lock_unregistering_all(void)
*/
void rtnl_link_unregister(struct rtnl_link_ops *ops)
{
/* Close the race with cleanup_net() */
/* Close the race with setup_net() and cleanup_net() */
down_write(&pernet_ops_rwsem);
rtnl_lock_unregistering_all();
__rtnl_link_unregister(ops);
......
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