On Fri, Sep 18, 2020 at 08:31:52PM -0300, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > On Mon, Sep 07, 2020 at 03:21:53PM +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote: > > From: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > > Restrack stores the IB objects in the internal xarray and insertion > > where can fail. As long as restrack was helper tool for the > > debuggability, such failure were ignored. > > > > In the following patches, the ib_core will be changed to manage allocated > > IB objects in restrack DB for the proper memory lifetime. It requires to > > ensure that insertion errors are not ignored. > > Why? This looks like it is all about removing valid, not sure what the > kref has to do with it.. This DB is going to be main source of all HW objects and their memory allocations. We want to be sure that everything there is valid. Thanks > > Jason
