[PATCH net v3] net: sparx5: Add spinlock for frame transmission from CPU

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Hello:

This patch was applied to netdev/net.git (main)
by Jakub Kicinski <kuba at kernel.org>:

On Mon, 19 Feb 2024 09:00:43 +0100 you wrote:
> Both registers used when doing manual injection or fdma injection are
> shared between all the net devices of the switch. It was noticed that
> when having two process which each of them trying to inject frames on
> different ethernet ports, that the HW started to behave strange, by
> sending out more frames then expected. When doing fdma injection it is
> required to set the frame in the DCB and then make sure that the next
> pointer of the last DCB is invalid. But because there is no locks for
> this, then easily this pointer between the DCB can be broken and then it
> would create a loop of DCBs. And that means that the HW will
> continuously transmit these frames in a loop. Until the SW will break
> this loop.
> Therefore to fix this issue, add a spin lock for when accessing the
> registers for manual or fdma injection.
> 
> [...]

Here is the summary with links:
  - [net,v3] net: sparx5: Add spinlock for frame transmission from CPU
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net/c/603ead96582d

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