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diff --git a/Documentation/networking/devlink/index.rst b/Documentation/networking/devlink/index.rst index 443123772f44..c17cdb079611 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/devlink/index.rst +++ b/Documentation/networking/devlink/index.rst @@ -4,6 +4,22 @@ Linux Devlink Documentation devlink is an API to expose device information and resources not directly related to any device class, such as chip-wide/switch-ASIC-wide configuration. +Locking +------- + +Driver facing APIs are currently transitioning to allow more explicit +locking. Drivers can use the existing ``devlink_*`` set of APIs, or +new APIs prefixed by ``devl_*``. The older APIs handle all the locking +in devlink core, but don't allow registration of most sub-objects once +the main devlink object is itself registered. The newer ``devl_*`` APIs assume +the devlink instance lock is already held. Drivers can take the instance +lock by calling ``devl_lock()``. It is also held in most of the callbacks. +Eventually all callbacks will be invoked under the devlink instance lock, +refer to the use of the ``DEVLINK_NL_FLAG_NO_LOCK`` flag in devlink core +to find out which callbacks are not converted, yet. + +Drivers are encouraged to use the devlink instance lock for their own needs. + Interface documentation ----------------------- |