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The devlink health reporters create/destroy and user commands currently use the devlink->lock as a locking mechanism. Different reporters have different rules in the driver and are being created/destroyed during different stages of driver load/unload/running. So during execution of a reporter recover the flow can go through another reporter's destroy and create. Such flow leads to deadlock trying to lock a mutex already held. With the new locking mechanism the different reporters share mutex lock only to protect access to shared reporters list. Added refcount per reporter, to protect the reporters from destroy while being used. Signed-off-by: Moshe Shemesh <moshe@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com> Acked-by: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@netronome.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.