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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2012-05-21 09:17:31 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2012-05-21 09:17:50 +0200
commitbb27f55eb9405257a59c82550dbb0d684cc3a665 (patch)
treebdab5866709e6ac7eeef7493d7d73bbd3d6231b6 /net/core/dev.c
parentb732d439cb43336cd6d7e804ecb2c81193ef63b0 (diff)
parent5e1c81d98a5621007824b49dde556fead5ff9c6c (diff)
Merge branch 'perf/core' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux into perf/core
Fixes for perf/core: - Rename some perf_target methods to avoid double negation, from Namhyung Kim. - Revert change to use per task events with inheritance, from Namhyung Kim. - Events should start disabled till children starts running, from David Ahern. Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/core/dev.c')
-rw-r--r--net/core/dev.c20
1 files changed, 20 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index c25d453b280..9bb8f87c4cd 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -1409,14 +1409,34 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(register_netdevice_notifier);
* register_netdevice_notifier(). The notifier is unlinked into the
* kernel structures and may then be reused. A negative errno code
* is returned on a failure.
+ *
+ * After unregistering unregister and down device events are synthesized
+ * for all devices on the device list to the removed notifier to remove
+ * the need for special case cleanup code.
*/
int unregister_netdevice_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb)
{
+ struct net_device *dev;
+ struct net *net;
int err;
rtnl_lock();
err = raw_notifier_chain_unregister(&netdev_chain, nb);
+ if (err)
+ goto unlock;
+
+ for_each_net(net) {
+ for_each_netdev(net, dev) {
+ if (dev->flags & IFF_UP) {
+ nb->notifier_call(nb, NETDEV_GOING_DOWN, dev);
+ nb->notifier_call(nb, NETDEV_DOWN, dev);
+ }
+ nb->notifier_call(nb, NETDEV_UNREGISTER, dev);
+ nb->notifier_call(nb, NETDEV_UNREGISTER_BATCH, dev);
+ }
+ }
+unlock:
rtnl_unlock();
return err;
}