On 1/15/2019 4:17 PM, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > On Tue, Jan 15, 2019 at 12:12:37PM -0600, Steve Wise wrote: >> On 1/11/2019 8:31 PM, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: >>> From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@xxxxxxxxxxxx> >>> >>> It turns out future patches need this capability quite widely now, >>> not just for netlink, so provide two global functions to manage the >>> registration lock refcount. >>> >>> This also moves the point the lock becomes 1 to within ib_register_device() >>> so that the semantics of the public API are very sane and clear. Calling >>> ib_device_try_get() will fail on devices that are only allocated but >>> not yet registered. >>> >>> Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@xxxxxxxxxxxx> >> >> This looks good to me. >> >> Signed-off-by: Steve Wise <swise@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > You mean Reviewed-by ? > > Yes, sorry...