Re: [PATCH 1/2] Revert "PCI/IOV: Serialize sysfs sriov_numvfs reads vs writes"

From: Leon Romanovsky
Date: Mon Dec 25 2023 - 06:20:41 EST


On Wed, Dec 20, 2023 at 10:58:17PM +0000, Jim Harris wrote:
> The proper way to detect a change to the num_VFs value is to listen for a
> sysfs event, not to add a device_lock() on the attribute _show() in the
> kernel.
>
> This reverts commit 35ff867b76576e32f34c698ccd11343f7d616204.
> Revert had a small conflict, the sprintf() is now changed to sysfs_emit().
>
> Suggested-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Jim Harris <jim.harris@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/pci/iov.c | 8 +-------
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 7 deletions(-)
>

Thanks,
Reviewed-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@xxxxxxxxxx>