RE: [PATCH 3/7] cxl/mbox: Add sanitation handling machinery

[Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>]

Davidlohr Bueso wrote:
> Sanitation is by definition a device-monopolizing operation, and thus
> the timeslicing rules for other background commands do not apply.
> As such handle this special case asynchronously and return immediately.
> Subsequent changes will allow completion to be pollable from userspace
> via a sysfs file interface.
> 
> For devices that don't support interrupts for notifying background
> command completion, self-poll with the caveat that the poller can
> be out of sync with the ready hardware, and therefore care must be
> taken to not allow any new commands to go through until the poller
> sees the hw completion. The poller takes the mbox_mutex to stabilize
> the flagging, minimizing any runtime overhead in the send path to
> check for 'sanitize_tmo' for uncommon poll scenarios.
> 
> The irq case is much simpler as hardware will serialize/error
> appropriately.

I noticed that this series bounces back and forth between "sanitation" and
"sanitization". I think everywhere it mention "sanitation" it means
"sanitization", right?