This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
ixgbe: downgrade logging of unsupported VF API version to debug
to the 6.1-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:
ixgbe-downgrade-logging-of-unsupported-vf-api-versio.patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.1 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit f84892da959fe302e4e4b43aa3138fdde42e994b
Author: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri Nov 1 16:05:43 2024 -0700
ixgbe: downgrade logging of unsupported VF API version to debug
[ Upstream commit 15915b43a7fb938934bb7fc4290127218859d795 ]
The ixgbe PF driver logs an info message when a VF attempts to negotiate an
API version which it does not support:
VF 0 requested invalid api version 6
The ixgbevf driver attempts to load with mailbox API v1.5, which is
required for best compatibility with other hosts such as the ESX VMWare PF.
The Linux PF only supports API v1.4, and does not currently have support
for the v1.5 API.
The logged message can confuse users, as the v1.5 API is valid, but just
happens to not currently be supported by the Linux PF.
Downgrade the info message to a debug message, and fix the language to
use 'unsupported' instead of 'invalid' to improve message clarity.
Long term, we should investigate whether the improvements in the v1.5 API
make sense for the Linux PF, and if so implement them properly. This may
require yet another API version to resolve issues with negotiating IPSEC
offload support.
Fixes: 339f28964147 ("ixgbevf: Add support for new mailbox communication between PF and VF")
Reported-by: Yifei Liu <yifei.l.liu@xxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/intel-wired-lan/20240301235837.3741422-1-yifei.l.liu@xxxxxxxxxx/
Signed-off-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Przemek Kitszel <przemyslaw.kitszel@xxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Rafal Romanowski <rafal.romanowski@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_common.h b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_common.h
index 4b531e8ae38ae..afe8a64dbdd41 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_common.h
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_common.h
@@ -195,6 +195,8 @@ u32 ixgbe_read_reg(struct ixgbe_hw *hw, u32 reg);
dev_err(&adapter->pdev->dev, format, ## arg)
#define e_dev_notice(format, arg...) \
dev_notice(&adapter->pdev->dev, format, ## arg)
+#define e_dbg(msglvl, format, arg...) \
+ netif_dbg(adapter, msglvl, adapter->netdev, format, ## arg)
#define e_info(msglvl, format, arg...) \
netif_info(adapter, msglvl, adapter->netdev, format, ## arg)
#define e_err(msglvl, format, arg...) \
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_sriov.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_sriov.c
index 198ab9d97618c..9132e73e41829 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_sriov.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_sriov.c
@@ -1051,7 +1051,7 @@ static int ixgbe_negotiate_vf_api(struct ixgbe_adapter *adapter,
break;
}
- e_info(drv, "VF %d requested invalid api version %u\n", vf, api);
+ e_dbg(drv, "VF %d requested unsupported api version %u\n", vf, api);
return -1;
}
