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Commit 6f49a57a authored by Dan Williams's avatar Dan Williams
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dmaengine: up-level reference counting to the module level



Simply, if a client wants any dmaengine channel then prevent all dmaengine
modules from being removed.  Once the clients are done re-enable module
removal.

Why?, beyond reducing complication:
1/ Tracking reference counts per-transaction in an efficient manner, as
   is currently done, requires a complicated scheme to avoid cache-line
   bouncing effects.
2/ Per-transaction ref-counting gives the false impression that a
   dma-driver can be gracefully removed ahead of its user (net, md, or
   dma-slave)
3/ None of the in-tree dma-drivers talk to hot pluggable hardware, but
   if such an engine were built one day we still would not need to notify
   clients of remove events.  The driver can simply return NULL to a
   ->prep() request, something that is much easier for a client to handle.

Reviewed-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: default avatarMaciej Sosnowski <maciej.sosnowski@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>

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