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From: hch@lst.de (Christoph Hellwig)
Subject: [PATCH 2/5] nvme-rdma: rework create_ctrl error flow
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2017 16:32:55 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171023143255.GB25448@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1508324864-23087-3-git-send-email-sagi@grimberg.me>

On Wed, Oct 18, 2017@02:07:41PM +0300, Sagi Grimberg wrote:
> From: Roy Shterman <roys at lightbitslabs.com>
> 
> The magic ctrl refcount handling we have due to the asymmetric
> behavior in nvme_init/uninit_ctrl is making the controller
> creation error sequence a bit awkward and error prone as we
> rely on magic refcounting to invoke ->free_ctrl from create_ctrl
> error sequence.
> 
> Now that we have nvme_init/uninit_ctrl doing the right thing, we
> can fix this by making the error sequence sane and simple (just
> undo what we did until the error).
> 
> Also, allocate ctrl->queues before calling nvme_init_ctrl, just
> to separate the driver private resource allocation and the core
> resource allocations.

Once we did the init we'll have to do a put and not just free it.
That will become even more important when using a struct device for
refcounting the controller.

  reply	other threads:[~2017-10-23 14:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-10-18 11:07 [PATCH 0/5] Small rework of nvme_init/uninit_ctrl Sagi Grimberg
2017-10-18 11:07 ` [PATCH 1/5] nvme-core: Make nvme_init/uninit_ctrl setup/teardown symmetric Sagi Grimberg
2017-10-18 15:08   ` Keith Busch
2017-10-18 15:29     ` Sagi Grimberg
2017-10-18 16:21       ` Keith Busch
2017-10-18 20:17       ` Keith Busch
2017-10-19 15:19         ` Sagi Grimberg
2017-10-19 15:29   ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-10-19 15:31     ` Sagi Grimberg
2017-10-22 11:11       ` Sagi Grimberg
2017-10-23 14:31         ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-10-18 11:07 ` [PATCH 2/5] nvme-rdma: rework create_ctrl error flow Sagi Grimberg
2017-10-23 14:32   ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2017-10-23 15:25     ` Sagi Grimberg
2017-10-18 11:07 ` [PATCH 3/5] nvme-rdma: remove redundant check if the ctrl is in the ctrl when freeing it Sagi Grimberg
2017-10-18 11:07 ` [PATCH 4/5] nvme-loop: rework create_ctrl error flow Sagi Grimberg
2017-10-18 11:07 ` [PATCH 5/5] nvme-loop: remove redundant check if the ctrl is in the ctrl when freeing it Sagi Grimberg

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