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Recent changes made it possible to register the devlink instance before
its sub-objects and under the instance lock. Among other things, it
allows us to avoid warnings such as this one [1]. The warning is
generated because a buggy firmware is generating a health event during
driver initialization, before the devlink instance is registered.
Move the registration of the devlink instance to the beginning of the
initialization flow to avoid such problems.
A similar change was implemented in netdevsim in commit 82a3aef2e6af
("netdevsim: move devlink registration under the instance lock").
[1]
WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 49 at net/devlink/leftover.c:7509 devlink_recover_notify.constprop.0+0xaf/0xc0
[...]
Call Trace:
<TASK>
devlink_health_report+0x45/0x1d0
mlxsw_core_health_event_work+0x24/0x30 [mlxsw_core]
process_one_work+0x1db/0x390
worker_thread+0x49/0x3b0
kthread+0xe5/0x110
ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30
</TASK>
Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Petr Machata <petrm@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>
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
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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.