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Re: [PATCH RFC 1/2] rhashtable: accept GFP flags in rhashtable_walk_init

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On 02/28/16 at 08:06pm, Bob Copeland wrote:
> In certain cases, the 802.11 mesh pathtable code wants to
> iterate over all of the entries in the forwarding table from
> the receive path, which is inside an RCU read-side critical
> section.  Enable walks inside atomic sections by allowing
> GFP_ATOMIC allocations for the walker state.
> 
> Change all existing callsites to pass in GFP_KERNEL.
> 
> Cc: Thomas Graf <tgraf@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: netdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Bob Copeland <me@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

rhashtable bits LGTM

Acked-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@xxxxxxx>
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