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author | Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com> | 2020-01-08 19:21:53 +0200 |
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committer | Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com> | 2020-01-13 16:17:19 -0400 |
commit | 6898d1c661d79f4707d8ba82991b2195822780ca (patch) | |
tree | 9a9beb1ffb18967ab7bf320d686d7705fa1004f7 /kernel/rcu/Kconfig.debug | |
parent | 8bdf9dd984c18375d1090ddeb1792511f619c5c1 (diff) |
RDMA/mlx5: Use RCU and direct refcounts to keep memory alive
dispatch_event_fd() runs from a notifier with minimal locking, and relies
on RCU and a file refcount to keep the uobject and eventfd alive.
As the next patch wants to remove the file_operations release function
from the drivers, re-organize things so that the devx_event_notifier()
path uses the existing RCU to manage the lifetime of the uobject and
eventfd.
Move the refcount puts to a call_rcu so that the objects are guaranteed to
exist and remove the indirect file refcount.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1578504126-9400-2-git-send-email-yishaih@mellanox.com
Signed-off-by: Yishai Hadas <yishaih@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com>
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