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The device driver for the underlying physical device associated with an RPC-over-RDMA transport can be removed while RPC-over-RDMA transports are still in use (ie, while NFS filesystems are still mounted and active). The IB core performs a connection event upcall to request that consumers free all RDMA resources associated with a transport. There may be pending RPCs when this occurs. Care must be taken to release associated resources without leaving references that can trigger a subsequent crash if a signal or soft timeout occurs. We rely on the caller of the transport's ->close method to ensure that the previous RPC task has invoked xprt_release but the transport remains write-locked. A DEVICE_REMOVE upcall forces a disconnect then sleeps. When ->close is invoked, it destroys the transport's H/W resources, then wakes the upcall, which completes and allows the core driver unload to continue. BugLink: https://bugzilla.linux-nfs.org/show_bug.cgi?id=266 Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Anna Schumaker <Anna.Schumaker@Netapp.com>
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