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Pull libnvdimm fixes from Dan Williams:
"A collection of locking and async operations fixes for v5.3-rc2. These
had been soaking in a branch targeting the merge window, but missed
due to a regression hunt. This fixed up version has otherwise been in
-next this past week with no reported issues.
In order to gain confidence in the locking changes the pull also
includes a debug / instrumentation patch to enable lockdep coverage
for libnvdimm subsystem operations that depend on the device_lock for
exclusion. As mentioned in the changelog it is a hack, but it works
and documents the locking expectations of the sub-system in a way that
others can use lockdep to verify. The driver core touches got an ack
from Greg.
Summary:
- Fix duplicate device_unregister() calls (multiple threads competing
to do unregister work when scheduling device removal from a sysfs
attribute of the self-same device).
- Fix badblocks registration order bug. Ensure region badblocks are
initialized in advance of namespace registration.
- Fix a deadlock between the bus lock and probe operations.
- Export device-core infrastructure to coordinate async operations
via the device ->dead state.
- Add device-core infrastructure to validate device_lock() usage with
lockdep"
* tag 'libnvdimm-fixes-5.3-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm:
driver-core, libnvdimm: Let device subsystems add local lockdep coverage
libnvdimm/bus: Fix wait_nvdimm_bus_probe_idle() ABBA deadlock
libnvdimm/bus: Stop holding nvdimm_bus_list_mutex over __nd_ioctl()
libnvdimm/bus: Prepare the nd_ioctl() path to be re-entrant
libnvdimm/region: Register badblocks before namespaces
libnvdimm/bus: Prevent duplicate device_unregister() calls
drivers/base: Introduce kill_device()
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