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The locking here started out with a single lock that covered everything and then has lately veered into crazy town. The fundamental problem is that several places need to iterate over a linked list, but also need to drop their locks to avoid deadlock during client callbacks. xarray's restartable iteration offers a simple solution to the problem. Once all the lists are xarrays we can drop locks in the places that need that and rely on xarray to provide consistency and locking for the data structure. The resulting simplification is that each of the three lists has a dedicated rwsem that must be held when working with the list it covers. One data structure is no longer covered by multiple locks. The sleeping semaphore is selected because the read side generally needs to be held over something sleeping, and using RCU reader locking in those cases is overkill. In the process this simplifies the entire registration/unregistration flow to be the expected list of setups and the reversed list of matching teardowns, and the registration lock 'refcount' can now be revised to be released after the ULPs are removed, providing a very sane semantic for this feature. Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com> |
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Linux kernel
============
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.