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James Smart 158bfb8888 nvme-fc: decouple ns references from lldd references
In the lldd api, a lldd may unregister a remoteport (loss of connectivity
or driver unload) or localport (driver unload). The lldd must wait for the
remoteport_delete or localport_delete before completing its actions post
the unregister.  The xxx_deletes currently occur only when the xxxport
structure is fully freed after all references are removed. Thus the lldd
may be held hostage until an app or in-kernel entity that has a namespace
open finally closes so the namespace can be removed, the controller
removed, thus the transport objects, thus the lldd.

This patch decouples the transport and os-facing objects from the lldd
and the remoteport and localport. There is a point in all deletions
where the transport will no longer interact with the lldd on behalf of
a controller. That point centers around the association established
with the target/subsystem. It will access the lldd whenever it attempts
to create an association and while the association is active. New
associations may only be created if the remoteport is live (thus the
localport is live). It will not access the lldd after deleting the
association.

Therefore, the patch tracks the count of active controllers - those with
associations being created or that are active - on a remoteport. It also
tracks the number of remoteports that have active controllers, on a
a localport. When a remoteport is unregistered, as soon as there are no
active controllers, the lldd's remoteport_delete may be called and the
lldd may continue. Similarly, when a localport is unregistered, as soon
as there are no remoteports with active controllers, the localport_delete
callback may be made. This significantly speeds up unregistration with
the lldd.

The transport objects continue in suspended status with reconnect timers
running, and upon expiration, normal ref-counting will occur and the
objects will be freed. The transport object may still be held hostage
by the application/kernel module, but that is acceptable.

With this change, the lldd may be fully unloaded and reloaded, and
if registrations occur prior to the timeouts, the nvme controller and
namespaces will resume normally as if a link bounce.

Signed-off-by: James Smart <james.smart@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2017-11-10 19:53:25 -07:00
arch Microblaze patches for 4.14-rc3 2017-09-25 15:37:19 -07:00
block blk-mq: don't allocate driver tag upfront for flush rq 2017-11-04 12:40:13 -06:00
certs modsign: add markers to endif-statements in certs/Makefile 2017-07-14 11:01:37 +10:00
crypto crypto: af_alg - update correct dst SGL entry 2017-09-20 17:42:42 +08:00
Documentation null_blk: add an usage for shared tags in documentation 2017-11-07 09:25:37 -07:00
drivers nvme-fc: decouple ns references from lldd references 2017-11-10 19:53:25 -07:00
firmware firmware: Restore support for built-in firmware 2017-09-16 10:58:48 -07:00
fs block: add a poll_fn callback to struct request_queue 2017-11-03 10:31:48 -06:00
include nvme: check admin passthru command effects 2017-11-10 19:53:25 -07:00
init Merge branch 'work.mount' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2017-09-14 18:54:01 -07:00
ipc fix a typo in put_compat_shm_info() 2017-09-25 20:41:46 -04:00
kernel blktrace: fix unlocked registration of tracepoints 2017-11-10 19:53:25 -07:00
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net Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2017-09-23 05:41:27 -10:00
samples media updates for v4.14-rc1 2017-09-07 12:53:14 -07:00
scripts DeviceTree fixes for 4.14: 2017-09-24 16:04:12 -07:00
security Merge branch 'next-general' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security 2017-09-24 11:40:41 -07:00
sound vfs: constify path argument to kernel_read_file_from_path 2017-09-14 20:18:45 -07:00
tools Merge branch 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-09-24 12:33:58 -07:00
usr ramfs: clarify help text that compression applies to ramfs as well as legacy ramdisk. 2017-07-06 16:24:30 -07:00
virt Revert "KVM: Don't accept obviously wrong gsi values via KVM_IRQFD" 2017-09-19 08:37:17 +02:00
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Makefile Linux 4.14-rc2 2017-09-24 16:38:56 -07:00
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Linux kernel
============

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.