What do the port and churn states for actor and partner mean in LACP bonding?

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Issue

In /proc/net/bonding/bond<x>, one can see port states and churn states for actor and partner. What do these mean? E.g.:

   port state: 7
   port state: 13

Environment

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

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