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Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2022 20:53:12 -0300
From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...pe.ca>
To: "Tian, Kevin" <kevin.tian@...el.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 01/15] vfio: Add helpers for unifying vfio_device life
cycle
On Fri, Sep 09, 2022 at 08:42:25AM +0000, Tian, Kevin wrote:
> I think it's quite common to have an alloc() helper initialize refcount, e.g.
> vfio_group_alloc() both initialize its user refcount and also call
> device_initialize() to gets kref initialized. Similar example in
> ib_alloc_device(), etc.
Right, it is quite a good/common pattern to have an allocation function
return a refcount to the caller.
I don't know of any naming standard for this however.
Jason
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