From: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
To: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>, benh@kernel.crashing.org
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>,
imunsie@au.ibm.com
Subject: Re: cxl: Fix refcounting in kernel API
Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2015 20:54:08 +1000 (AEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150708105408.82DA9140AF3@ozlabs.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1436230877-14542-1-git-send-email-mikey@neuling.org>
On Tue, 2015-07-07 at 01:01:17 UTC, Michael Neuling wrote:
> Currently the kernel API AFU dev refcounting is done on context start and stop.
> This patch moves this refcounting to context init and release, bringing it
> inline with how the userspace API does it.
>
> Without this we've seen the refcounting on the AFU get out of whack between the
> user and kernel API usage. This causes the AFU structures to be freed when
> they are actually still in use.
>
> This fixes some kref warnings we've been seeing and spurious ErrIVTE IRQs.
>
> Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
> Acked-by: Ian Munsie <imunsie@au1.ibm.com>
Applied to powerpc fixes, thanks.
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux.git/commit/?h=fixes&id=3f8dc44d88d3e86178eb9322c779c599f3745b21
cheers
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2015-07-07 1:01 [PATCH] cxl: Fix refcounting in kernel API Michael Neuling
2015-07-07 1:12 ` Ian Munsie
2015-07-08 10:54 ` Michael Ellerman [this message]
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