This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ionic: tame the watchdog timer on reconfig to the 5.7-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: ionic-tame-the-watchdog-timer-on-reconfig.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.7 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 0b89c8dfebd5e54cc2b24982ae57e4ecb95dd01f Author: Shannon Nelson <snelson@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu Jun 18 10:29:04 2020 -0700 ionic: tame the watchdog timer on reconfig [ Upstream commit b59eabd23ee53e8c3492602722e1697f9a2f63ad ] Even with moving netif_tx_disable() to an earlier point when taking down the queues for a reconfiguration, we still end up with the occasional netdev watchdog Tx Timeout complaint. The old method of using netif_trans_update() works fine for queue 0, but has no effect on the remaining queues. Using netif_device_detach() allows us to signal to the watchdog to ignore us for the moment. Fixes: beead698b173 ("ionic: Add the basic NDO callbacks for netdev support") Signed-off-by: Shannon Nelson <snelson@xxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Jonathan Toppins <jtoppins@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/pensando/ionic/ionic_lif.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/pensando/ionic/ionic_lif.c index 2729b0bb12739..790d4854b8ef5 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/pensando/ionic/ionic_lif.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/pensando/ionic/ionic_lif.c @@ -1682,8 +1682,8 @@ static void ionic_stop_queues(struct ionic_lif *lif) if (!test_and_clear_bit(IONIC_LIF_F_UP, lif->state)) return; - ionic_txrx_disable(lif); netif_tx_disable(lif->netdev); + ionic_txrx_disable(lif); } int ionic_stop(struct net_device *netdev) @@ -1949,18 +1949,19 @@ int ionic_reset_queues(struct ionic_lif *lif) bool running; int err = 0; - /* Put off the next watchdog timeout */ - netif_trans_update(lif->netdev); - err = ionic_wait_for_bit(lif, IONIC_LIF_F_QUEUE_RESET); if (err) return err; running = netif_running(lif->netdev); - if (running) + if (running) { + netif_device_detach(lif->netdev); err = ionic_stop(lif->netdev); - if (!err && running) + } + if (!err && running) { ionic_open(lif->netdev); + netif_device_attach(lif->netdev); + } clear_bit(IONIC_LIF_F_QUEUE_RESET, lif->state);