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The MFW manages an internal lock to prevent concurrent hardware (de)initialization of different PFs. This, together with the busy-waiting for the MFW's responses for commands, might lead to a deadlock during concurrent load or unload of PFs. This patch adds the option to sleep within the busy-waiting, and uses it for the (un)load requests (which are not sent from an interrupt context) to prevent the possible deadlock. Signed-off-by: Tomer Tayar <Tomer.Tayar@cavium.com> Signed-off-by: Ariel Elior <Ariel.Elior@cavium.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.
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.