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authorParav Pandit <parav@mellanox.com>2020-07-21 19:53:53 +0300
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2020-07-21 16:14:58 -0700
commit336ce1c93293e1e606fbc557587b1a1f8630cd5c (patch)
tree473bb69a288e403ca38a1dad2571af13dbb92dc0 /include
parent9232a3e67b212f9ef924786f8dde23080acd321a (diff)
devlink: Add comment for devlink instance lock
Add comment to describe the purpose of devlink instance lock. Signed-off-by: Parav Pandit <parav@mellanox.com> Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
-rw-r--r--include/net/devlink.h4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/net/devlink.h b/include/net/devlink.h
index 913e8679ae35..19d990c8edcc 100644
--- a/include/net/devlink.h
+++ b/include/net/devlink.h
@@ -40,7 +40,9 @@ struct devlink {
struct xarray snapshot_ids;
struct device *dev;
possible_net_t _net;
- struct mutex lock;
+ struct mutex lock; /* Serializes access to devlink instance specific objects such as
+ * port, sb, dpipe, resource, params, region, traps and more.
+ */
u8 reload_failed:1,
reload_enabled:1,
registered:1;