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Ulf Hansson
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When the mmc_rescan work is enabled for execution (host->rescan_disable), it's the only instance per mmc host that is allowed to set/clear the host->bus_ops pointer. Besides the mmc_rescan work, there are a couple of scenarios when the host->bus_ops pointer may be accessed. Typically, those can be described as as below: *) Upper mmc driver layers (like the mmc block device driver or an SDIO functional driver) needs to execute a host->bus_ops callback. This can be considered as safe without having to use some special locking mechanism, because they operate on top of the struct mmc_card. As long as there is a card to operate upon, the mmc core guarantees that there is a host->bus_ops assigned as well. Note that, upper layer mmc drivers are of course responsible to clean up from themselves from their ->remove() callbacks, otherwise things would fall apart anyways. **) Via the mmc host instance, we may need to force a removal of an inserted mmc card. This happens when a mmc host driver gets unbind, for example. In this case, we protect the host->bus_ops pointer from concurrent accesses, by disabling the mmc_rescan work upfront (host->rescan_disable). See mmc_stop_host() for example. This said, it seems like the reference counting of the host->bus_ops pointer at some point have become superfluous. As this is an old mechanism of the mmc core, it a bit difficult to digest the history of when that could have happened. However, let's drop the reference counting to avoid unnecessary code-paths and lockings. Cc: Pierre Ossman <pierre@ossman.eu> Cc: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@linaro.org> Reviewed-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210212131610.236843-1-ulf.hansson@linaro.org
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.