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The whole reason for existence of the pf mutex is that we could not lock the devlink instance around port splitting. There are more types of reconfig which can make ports appear or disappear. Now that the devlink instance lock is exposed to drivers and "locked" helpers exist we can switch to using the devlink lock directly. Next patches will move the locking inside .port_(un)split to the core. Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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.
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.