[PATCH net-next V10 01/14] devlink: Update nested instance locking comment
From: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@nvidia.com>
Date: 2026-07-01 07:34:00
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documentation, networking [general], the rest · Maintainers:
Jonathan Corbet, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds
From: Cosmin Ratiu <redacted>
In commit [1] a comment about nested instance locking was updated. But
there's another place where this is mentioned, so update that as well.
[1] commit 0061b5199d7c ("devlink: Reverse locking order for nested
instances")
Signed-off-by: Cosmin Ratiu <redacted>
Reviewed-by: Carolina Jubran <redacted>
Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@nvidia.com>
---
Documentation/networking/devlink/index.rst | 8 ++++----
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/devlink/index.rst b/Documentation/networking/devlink/index.rst
index 32f70879ddd0..4745148fecf4 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/devlink/index.rst
+++ b/Documentation/networking/devlink/index.rst@@ -31,10 +31,10 @@ sure to respect following rules: - Lock ordering should be maintained. If driver needs to take instance lock of both nested and parent instances at the same time, devlink - instance lock of the parent instance should be taken first, only then - instance lock of the nested instance could be taken. - - Driver should use object-specific helpers to setup the nested relationship - before registering the nested devlink instance: + instance lock of the nested instance should be taken first, only then + instance lock of the parent instance could be taken. + - Driver should use object-specific helpers to setup the + nested relationship: - ``devl_nested_devlink_set()`` - called to setup devlink -> nested devlink relationship (could be used for multiple nested instances).
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