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The RTNL lock must be held between down and up to prevent interleaving state changes, especially since external state changes might release and allocate different driver resource subsets that would otherwise need to be tracked and carefully handled. If the down function fails, then devlink will not call the corresponding up function, thus the lock is released in the down error paths. v2: Don't use devlink_reload_disable() and devlink_reload_enable(). Instead, check that the netdev is not in unregistered state before proceeding with reload. Signed-off-by: Edwin Peer <edwin.peer@broadcom.com> Signed-Off-by: Michael Chan <michael.chan@broadcom.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.
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.