From: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
XArray uses internal lock for updates to XArray. This means that our
external RW lock is needed to ensure that entry is not deleted while
we are iteration over list.
Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/infiniband/core/restrack.c | 2 --
include/rdma/restrack.h | 3 ++-
2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/core/restrack.c b/drivers/infiniband/core/restrack.c
index 59bb6617a805..2b2ff8e1b051 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/core/restrack.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/core/restrack.c
@@ -210,14 +210,12 @@ static void rdma_restrack_add(struct rdma_restrack_entry *res)
init_completion(&res->comp);
res->valid = true;
- down_write(&dev->res.rwsem);
id = res_to_id(res);
ret = xa_insert(&dev->res.xa[res->type], id, res, GFP_KERNEL);
WARN_ONCE(ret == -EEXIST, "Tried to add non-unique type %d entry\n",
res->type);
if (ret)
res->valid = false;
- up_write(&dev->res.rwsem);
}
/**
diff --git a/include/rdma/restrack.h b/include/rdma/restrack.h
index 5b1aa839aad2..ed907b635868 100644
--- a/include/rdma/restrack.h
+++ b/include/rdma/restrack.h
@@ -58,7 +58,8 @@ struct rdma_restrack_entry;
*/
struct rdma_restrack_root {
/*
- * @rwsem: Read/write lock to protect lists and IDR
+ * @rwsem: Read/write lock to protect erase of entry.
+ * Lists and insertions are protected by XArray internal lock.
*/
struct rw_semaphore rwsem;
/**
--
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