netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 1/9] net: devlink: remove region snapshot ID tracking dependency on devlink->lock

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Date:   Wed, 27 Jul 2022 18:58:51 -0700
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     Moshe Shemesh <moshe@...dia.com>
Cc:     "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@...dia.com>,
        Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org>,
        "Tariq Toukan" <tariqt@...dia.com>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, Jiri Pirko <jiri@...dia.com>,
        <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 1/9] net: devlink: remove region snapshot ID
 tracking dependency on devlink->lock

On Wed, 27 Jul 2022 20:03:28 +0300 Moshe Shemesh wrote:
> So resolve this by removing dependency on devlink->lock for region
> snapshot ID tracking by using internal xa_lock() to maintain
> shapshot_ids xa_array consistency.

xa_lock() is a spin lock, right?  s/GFP_KERNEL/GFP_ATOMIC/