netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 2/9] net: devlink: remove region snapshots list dependency on devlink->lock

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Date:   Wed, 27 Jul 2022 19:01:56 -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 2/9] net: devlink: remove region snapshots list
 dependency on devlink->lock

On Wed, 27 Jul 2022 20:03:29 +0300 Moshe Shemesh wrote:
> From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@...dia.com>
> 
> After mlx4 driver is converted to do locked reload,
> devlink_region_snapshot_create() may be called from both locked and
> unlocked context.

You need to explain why, tho. What makes region snapshots special? 

> So resolve this by removing dependency on devlink->lock for region
> snapshots list consistency and introduce new mutex to ensure it.

I was hoping to avoid per-subobject locks. What prevents us from
depending on the instance lock here (once the driver is converted)?