This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
sfc: Do not attempt to flush queues if DMA is disabled
to the 3.4-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:
sfc-do-not-attempt-to-flush-queues-if-dma-is-disabled.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From eca4273c008c413fbf288317a2403cab44541b9d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Stuart Hodgson <smhodgson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 13:04:51 +0100
Subject: sfc: Do not attempt to flush queues if DMA is disabled
From: Stuart Hodgson <smhodgson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit 3dca9d2dc285faf1910d405b65df845cab061356 ]
efx_nic_fatal_interrupt() disables DMA before scheduling a reset.
After this, we need not and *cannot* flush queues.
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/efx.c | 33 +++++++++++++++++++--------------
1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/efx.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/efx.c
@@ -656,25 +656,30 @@ static void efx_stop_datapath(struct efx
struct efx_channel *channel;
struct efx_tx_queue *tx_queue;
struct efx_rx_queue *rx_queue;
+ struct pci_dev *dev = efx->pci_dev;
int rc;
EFX_ASSERT_RESET_SERIALISED(efx);
BUG_ON(efx->port_enabled);
- rc = efx_nic_flush_queues(efx);
- if (rc && EFX_WORKAROUND_7803(efx)) {
- /* Schedule a reset to recover from the flush failure. The
- * descriptor caches reference memory we're about to free,
- * but falcon_reconfigure_mac_wrapper() won't reconnect
- * the MACs because of the pending reset. */
- netif_err(efx, drv, efx->net_dev,
- "Resetting to recover from flush failure\n");
- efx_schedule_reset(efx, RESET_TYPE_ALL);
- } else if (rc) {
- netif_err(efx, drv, efx->net_dev, "failed to flush queues\n");
- } else {
- netif_dbg(efx, drv, efx->net_dev,
- "successfully flushed all queues\n");
+ /* Only perform flush if dma is enabled */
+ if (dev->is_busmaster) {
+ rc = efx_nic_flush_queues(efx);
+
+ if (rc && EFX_WORKAROUND_7803(efx)) {
+ /* Schedule a reset to recover from the flush failure. The
+ * descriptor caches reference memory we're about to free,
+ * but falcon_reconfigure_mac_wrapper() won't reconnect
+ * the MACs because of the pending reset. */
+ netif_err(efx, drv, efx->net_dev,
+ "Resetting to recover from flush failure\n");
+ efx_schedule_reset(efx, RESET_TYPE_ALL);
+ } else if (rc) {
+ netif_err(efx, drv, efx->net_dev, "failed to flush queues\n");
+ } else {
+ netif_dbg(efx, drv, efx->net_dev,
+ "successfully flushed all queues\n");
+ }
}
efx_for_each_channel(channel, efx) {
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from smhodgson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.4/sfc-do-not-attempt-to-flush-queues-if-dma-is-disabled.patch
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