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authorDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>2022-11-11 08:35:36 +0000
committerDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>2023-01-06 09:43:33 +0000
commit2d689424b6184535890c251f937ccf815fde9cd2 (patch)
tree38560edb8802f3c02e30420a6de79456cdbbdf3b /Documentation
parentd41b3f5b96881809c73f86e3ca436c9426610b7a (diff)
rxrpc: Move call state changes from sendmsg to I/O thread
Move all the call state changes that are made in rxrpc_sendmsg() to the I/O thread. This is a step towards removing the call state lock. This requires the switch to the RXRPC_CALL_CLIENT_AWAIT_REPLY and RXRPC_CALL_SERVER_SEND_REPLY states to be done when the last packet is decanted from ->tx_sendmsg to ->tx_buffer in the I/O thread, not when it is added to ->tx_sendmsg by sendmsg(). Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> cc: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com> cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/networking/rxrpc.rst4
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diff --git a/Documentation/networking/rxrpc.rst b/Documentation/networking/rxrpc.rst
index 39494a6ea739..e1af54424192 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/rxrpc.rst
+++ b/Documentation/networking/rxrpc.rst
@@ -880,8 +880,8 @@ The kernel interface functions are as follows:
notify_end_rx can be NULL or it can be used to specify a function to be
called when the call changes state to end the Tx phase. This function is
- called with the call-state spinlock held to prevent any reply or final ACK
- from being delivered first.
+ called with a spinlock held to prevent the last DATA packet from being
+ transmitted until the function returns.
(#) Receive data from a call::