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The struct devlink itself is protected by internal lock and doesn't need global lock during operation. That global lock is used to protect addition/removal new devlink instances from the global list in use by all devlink consumers in the system. The future conversion of linked list to be xarray will allow us to actually delete that lock, but first we need to count all struct devlink users. The reference counting provides us a way to ensure that no new user space commands success to grab devlink instance which is going to be destroyed makes it is safe to access it without lock. Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.