devlink: document devlink_rel_nested_in_notify() function

Add a documentation for devlink_rel_nested_in_notify() describing the
devlink instance locking consequences.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/net/devlink/core.c b/net/devlink/core.c
index 655903ddbdfd..6984877e9f10 100644
--- a/net/devlink/core.c
+++ b/net/devlink/core.c
@@ -168,6 +168,20 @@ int devlink_rel_nested_in_add(u32 *rel_index, u32 devlink_index,
 	return 0;
 }
 
+/**
+ * devlink_rel_nested_in_notify - Notify the object this devlink
+ *				  instance is nested in.
+ * @devlink: devlink
+ *
+ * This is called upon network namespace change of devlink instance.
+ * In case this devlink instance is nested in another devlink object,
+ * a notification of a change of this object should be sent
+ * over netlink. The parent devlink instance lock needs to be
+ * taken during the notification preparation.
+ * However, since the devlink lock of nested instance is held here,
+ * we would end with wrong devlink instance lock ordering and
+ * deadlock. Therefore the work is utilized to avoid that.
+ */
 void devlink_rel_nested_in_notify(struct devlink *devlink)
 {
 	struct devlink_rel *rel = devlink->rel;