netdev - Re: bnxt devl_assert

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Message-ID: <Y9E/phvj/nZoqmR1@x1-carbon>
Date:   Wed, 25 Jan 2023 14:41:43 +0000
From:   Niklas Cassel <Niklas.Cassel@....com>
To:     Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
CC:     "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Jiri Pirko <jiri@...dia.com>,
        Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org>,
        Michael Chan <michael.chan@...adcom.com>
Subject: Re: bnxt devl_assert_locked warning

On Wed, Jan 25, 2023 at 03:17:05PM +0100, Jiri Pirko wrote:
> Wed, Jan 25, 2023 at 02:36:27PM CET, Niklas.Cassel@....com wrote:
> >Hello there,
> >
> >When testing next-20230124 and next-20230125 I get a warning about devlink
> >lock not being held in the bnxt driver, at boot or when modprobing the driver.
> >See trace below.
> >
> >I haven't seen this when testing just 1-2 weeks ago, so I assume that something
> >that went in recently caused this.
> >
> >Searching lore.kernel.org/netdev shows that Jiri has done a lot of refactoring
> >with regards to devlink locking recently, could that be related?
> 
> Oh yeah, this is due to:
> 63ba54a52c417a0c632a5f85a2b912b8a2320358
> 
> I just set a patches that is fixing this taking devlink instance lock
> for params operations:
> https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20230125141412.1592256-1-jiri@resnulli.us/

Thank you Jiri!

I applied the series, and I can no longer see the warning during boot.

Kind regards,
Niklas