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From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
To: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>,
	Leon Romanovsky <leonro@nvidia.com>,
	Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
Subject: [Q] RCU usage in infiniband
Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2026 11:23:16 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260708092316.Qb39F_B0@linutronix.de> (raw)

Hi,

I've been randomly starting at infiniband code and noticed it uses
call_rcu() with a callback from its module. 

| drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/devx.c:         call_rcu(&event_sub->rcu, devx_free_subscription);
| drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_main.c: call_rcu(&neigh->rcu, ipoib_neigh_reclaim);

I don't see synchronize_rcu() and rcu_barrier() there so I've been
asking myself what ensures that the callback completes before module is
gone (via rmmod)? I would expect a rcu_barrier() in
ipoib_cleanup_module() for instance.

Is the unload path so "late" that the callbacks run before the module is
unmapped or is there something between the APIs that ensures this?

Sebastian

             reply	other threads:[~2026-07-08  9:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-07-08  9:23 Sebastian Andrzej Siewior [this message]
2026-07-08 13:17 ` [Q] RCU usage in infiniband Jason Gunthorpe
2026-07-08 13:21   ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2026-07-08 13:28     ` Jason Gunthorpe
2026-07-08 13:34       ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2026-07-08 13:58         ` Paul E. McKenney

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