Revocable references vs. krefs
Revocable references vs. krefs
Posted Sep 30, 2025 0:50 UTC (Tue) by riking (subscriber, #95706)In reply to: Revocable references vs. krefs by Alan.Stern
Parent article: Revocable references for transient devices
Of course, for the subsystems that the removable device's driver does register with, it *cannot* process those unregistrations until it is satisfied that its consumers have stopped trying to use the device (now, via struct revokable). Once the SRCU critical section has passed, the subsystem deregistrations can happen.
