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Drivers: hv: vmbus: Fix a Host signaling bug
authorK. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>
Tue, 15 Dec 2015 00:01:54 +0000 (16:01 -0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Tue, 15 Dec 2015 03:15:05 +0000 (19:15 -0800)
commit8599846d73997cdbccf63f23394d871cfad1e5e6
tree71b9d87febd70d4f439c29ac0b88a3a749f1c4f4
parent40f26f3168bf7a4da490db308dc0bd9f9923f41f
Drivers: hv: vmbus: Fix a Host signaling bug

Currently we have two policies for deciding when to signal the host:
One based on the ring buffer state and the other based on what the
VMBUS client driver wants to do. Consider the case when the client
wants to explicitly control when to signal the host. In this case,
if the client were to defer signaling, we will not be able to signal
the host subsequently when the client does want to signal since the
ring buffer state will prevent the signaling. Implement logic to
have only one signaling policy in force for a given channel.

Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>
Reviewed-by: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>
Tested-by: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v4.2+
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/hv/channel.c
include/linux/hyperv.h