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    devlink: move flash end and begin to core devlink · 52cc5f3a
    Jacob Keller authored
    When performing a flash update via devlink, device drivers may inform
    user space of status updates via
    devlink_flash_update_(begin|end|timeout|status)_notify functions.
    
    It is expected that drivers do not send any status notifications unless
    they send a begin and end message. If a driver sends a status
    notification without sending the appropriate end notification upon
    finishing (regardless of success or failure), the current implementation
    of the devlink userspace program can get stuck endlessly waiting for the
    end notification that will never come.
    
    The current ice driver implementation may send such a status message
    without the appropriate end notification in rare cases.
    
    Fixing the ice driver is relatively simple: we just need to send the
    begin_notify at the start of the function and always send an end_notify
    no matter how the function exits.
    
    Rather than assuming driver authors will always get this right in the
    future, lets just fix the API so that it is not possible to get wrong.
    Make devlink_flash_update_begin_notify and
    devlink_flash_update_end_notify static, and call them in devlink.c core
    code. Always send the begin_notify just before calling the driver's
    flash_update routine. Always send the end_notify just after the routine
    returns regardless of success or failure.
    
    Doing this makes the status notification easier to use from the driver,
    as it no longer needs to worry about catching failures and cleaning up
    by calling devlink_flash_update_end_notify. It is now no longer possible
    to do the wrong thing in this regard. We also save a couple of lines of
    code in each driver.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarVasundhara Volam <vasundhara-v.volam@broadcom.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarJiri Pirko <jiri@nvidia.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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