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From: Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
To: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>
Cc: Sharath Srinivasan <sharath.srinivasan@oracle.com>,
	Parav Pandit <parav@nvidia.com>,
	linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH rdma-next] RDMA/core: release devices_rwsem when calling device_del
Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2026 15:47:59 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260125134759.GD13967@unreal> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260119195329.GK961572@ziepe.ca>

On Mon, Jan 19, 2026 at 03:53:29PM -0400, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 19, 2026 at 11:43:52AM -0800, Sharath Srinivasan wrote:
> > The sync strategy in remove_all_compat_devs() can improved
> > by adopting that of rdma_dev_exit_net() which releases devices_rwsem
> > before calling remove_one_compat_dev()/device_del().
> > 
> > Also fixes a comment typo in rdma_dev_exit_net().
> 
> You cannot change this locking without writing a huge commit message
> explaining in detail the reason why any change like this is safe..

We can drop this patch, it doesn't even apply.

Thanks

> 
> Jason
> 

  reply	other threads:[~2026-01-25 13:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-01-19 19:43 [PATCH rdma-next] RDMA/core: release devices_rwsem when calling device_del Sharath Srinivasan
2026-01-19 19:53 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2026-01-25 13:47   ` Leon Romanovsky [this message]
2026-01-26 18:47     ` Sharath Srinivasan

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