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From: Joonwon Kang <joonwonkang@google.com>
To: jassisinghbrar@gmail.com, sudeep.holla@kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org,
	 akpm@linux-foundation.org, Joonwon Kang <joonwonkang@google.com>
Subject: [PATCH] mailbox: Clarify multi-thread is not supported in blocking mode
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2026 10:46:51 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260421104652.211276-1-joonwonkang@google.com> (raw)

Unlike in non-blocking mode, multi-thread has not been supported in
blocking mode. This commit is to prevent clients from having wrong
assumption by explicitly specifying this fact to the API doc.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Joonwon Kang <joonwonkang@google.com>
---
v1: Abandon the previous attempts to support multi-thread in blocking
  mode and instead declare it is not supported.

 drivers/mailbox/mailbox.c | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/mailbox/mailbox.c b/drivers/mailbox/mailbox.c
index bbc9fd75a95f..b00f7a32e866 100644
--- a/drivers/mailbox/mailbox.c
+++ b/drivers/mailbox/mailbox.c
@@ -258,6 +258,10 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(mbox_chan_tx_slots_available);
  * over the chan, i.e, tx_done() is made.
  * This function could be called from atomic context as it simply
  * queues the data and returns a token against the request.
+ *  In blocking mode, it is caller's responsibility to serialize threads'
+ * access to a channel if multi-threads are to send messages through the
+ * same channel, i.e. caller should not call this function until any
+ * previous call returns.
  *
  * Return: Non-negative integer for successful submission (non-blocking mode)
  *	or transmission over chan (blocking mode).
-- 
2.54.0.rc1.555.g9c883467ad-goog


             reply	other threads:[~2026-04-21 10:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-04-21 10:46 Joonwon Kang [this message]
2026-04-21 10:46 ` [PATCH v4] mailbox: Make mbox_send_message() return error code when tx fails Joonwon Kang

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