a36740f614
Added a new mailbox API which goes through all responses to check their IDs and response codes. Also added logic to prevent queuing multiple works to process the same mailbox message. This scenario happens when AF is processing a PF's request and menawhile PF sends ACK to AF sent UP message, then mbox_hdr->num_msgs in the PF->AF DOWN mbox region will be nonzero and AF will end up processing PF's request again. This is fixed by taking a backup of num_msgs counter and clearing the same in the mbox region before scheduling work. Signed-off-by: Subbaraya Sundeep <sbhatta@marvell.com> Signed-off-by: Sunil Goutham <sgoutham@marvell.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.