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    nvme: switch controller refcounting to use struct device · d22524a4
    Christoph Hellwig authored
    Instead of allocating a separate struct device for the character device
    handle embedd it into struct nvme_ctrl and use it for the main controller
    refcounting.  This removes double refcounting and gets us an automatic
    reference for the character device operations.  We keep ctrl->device as a
    pointer for now to avoid chaning printks all over, but in the future we
    could look into message printing helpers that take a controller structure
    similar to what other subsystems do.
    
    Note the delete_ctrl operation always already has a reference (either
    through sysfs due this change, or because every open file on the
    /dev/nvme-fabrics node has a refernece) when it is entered now, so we
    don't need to do the unless_zero variant there.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarHannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
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