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  Re: nvdimm/pmem device lifetime Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> - 2017-04-28 17:40 +0200

#1632975 — Re: nvdimm/pmem device lifetime

On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 9:37 PM, Mika Penttilä
<mika.penttila@nextfour.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Just wondering the pmem struct device vs gendisk lifetimes.. from pmem_attach_disk():
>
>         device_add_disk(dev, disk);
>         devm_add_action_or_reset(dev, pmem_release_disk, disk);
>
>
> where:
> static void pmem_release_disk(void *disk)
> {
>         del_gendisk(disk);
>         put_disk(disk);
> }
>
>
> but device_add_disk() makes disk pin dev (as a parent), and it's unpinned by del_gendisk()
> which is called when dev is released, but it's not because of this circular dependency?

pmem_release_disk() is called when the driver is unbound, well before
the device is released. See the calls to devres_release_all() in the
device_release_driver() path.

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