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When doing device hotplug the sub channel must be async to avoid deadlock issues because device is discovered in softirq context. When doing changes to MTU and number of channels, the setup must be synchronous to avoid races such as when MTU and device settings are done in a single ip command. Reported-by: Thomas Walker <Thomas.Walker@twosigma.com> Fixes:8195b1396e("hv_netvsc: fix deadlock on hotplug") Fixes:732e49850c("netvsc: fix race on sub channel creation") Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.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.