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| author | Cosmin Ratiu <cratiu@nvidia.com> | 2026-07-01 10:32:41 +0300 |
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| committer | Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com> | 2026-07-07 11:31:26 +0200 |
| commit | 3bf4c5970ca8c4bcd8312a3e9d577894e438c3a1 (patch) | |
| tree | 23941cb8ccb995678587c84dd7b434cac60c5327 /Documentation/networking/devlink | |
| parent | 31816fc5d9acf8cdf226cdd0dc296e8cf15cc033 (diff) | |
devlink: Update nested instance locking comment
In commit [1] a comment about nested instance locking was updated. But
there's another place where this is mentioned, so update that as well.
[1] commit 0061b5199d7c ("devlink: Reverse locking order for nested
instances")
Signed-off-by: Cosmin Ratiu <cratiu@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Carolina Jubran <cjubran@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@nvidia.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260701073254.754518-2-tariqt@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/networking/devlink')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/devlink/index.rst | 8 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/devlink/index.rst b/Documentation/networking/devlink/index.rst index 32f70879ddd0..4745148fecf4 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/devlink/index.rst +++ b/Documentation/networking/devlink/index.rst @@ -31,10 +31,10 @@ sure to respect following rules: - Lock ordering should be maintained. If driver needs to take instance lock of both nested and parent instances at the same time, devlink - instance lock of the parent instance should be taken first, only then - instance lock of the nested instance could be taken. - - Driver should use object-specific helpers to setup the nested relationship - before registering the nested devlink instance: + instance lock of the nested instance should be taken first, only then + instance lock of the parent instance could be taken. + - Driver should use object-specific helpers to setup the + nested relationship: - ``devl_nested_devlink_set()`` - called to setup devlink -> nested devlink relationship (could be used for multiple nested instances). |