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Commit 2d9a93b4 authored by Taehee Yoo's avatar Taehee Yoo Committed by David S. Miller
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mld: convert from timer to delayed work


mcast.c has several timers for delaying works.
Timer's expire handler is working under atomic context so it can't use
sleepable things such as GFP_KERNEL, mutex, etc.
In order to use sleepable APIs, it converts from timers to delayed work.
But there are some critical sections, which is used by both process
and BH context. So that it still uses spin_lock_bh() and rwlock.

Suggested-by: default avatarCong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarTaehee Yoo <ap420073@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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