This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
IB/mlx5: Avoid system crash when enabling many VFs
to the 4.9-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:
ib-mlx5-avoid-system-crash-when-enabling-many-vfs.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From afd02cd3a9b6c04b41d946b5d7f6e17b3fc30c6b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eli Cohen <eli@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2016 15:18:21 +0200
Subject: IB/mlx5: Avoid system crash when enabling many VFs
From: Eli Cohen <eli@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
commit afd02cd3a9b6c04b41d946b5d7f6e17b3fc30c6b upstream.
When enabling many VFs, the total amount of DMA mappings increase
significantly. This causes DMA allocations to take a lot of time
since they are serialized in the kernel.
As a result the driver enters into fatal condition due to
timeout and the system hangs. To recover from this we disable
MR cache for VFs.
PFs will still have a full cache and VFs cache can be manipulated
as usual after driver load.
Fixes: e126ba97dba9 ('mlx5: Add driver for Mellanox Connect-IB adapters')
Signed-off-by: Eli Cohen <eli@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Maor Gottlieb <maorg@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leon@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/mr.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/mr.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/mr.c
@@ -628,7 +628,8 @@ int mlx5_mr_cache_init(struct mlx5_ib_de
ent->order = i + 2;
ent->dev = dev;
- if (dev->mdev->profile->mask & MLX5_PROF_MASK_MR_CACHE)
+ if ((dev->mdev->profile->mask & MLX5_PROF_MASK_MR_CACHE) &&
+ (mlx5_core_is_pf(dev->mdev)))
limit = dev->mdev->profile->mr_cache[i].limit;
else
limit = 0;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from eli@xxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.9/ib-mlx5-avoid-system-crash-when-enabling-many-vfs.patch
queue-4.9/ib-mlx5-wait-for-all-async-command-completions-to-complete.patch
queue-4.9/ib-mlx5-fix-reported-max-sge-calculation.patch
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