This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ntb: ntb_test: ensure the link is up before trying to configure the mws 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: ntb-ntb_test-ensure-the-link-is-up-before-trying-to-configure-the-mws.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 0eb46345364d7318b11068c46e8a68d5dc10f65e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Logan Gunthorpe <logang@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2017 14:57:42 -0600 Subject: ntb: ntb_test: ensure the link is up before trying to configure the mws From: Logan Gunthorpe <logang@xxxxxxxxxxxx> commit 0eb46345364d7318b11068c46e8a68d5dc10f65e upstream. After the link tests, there is a race on one side of the test for the link coming up. It's possible, in some cases, for the test script to write to the 'peer_trans' files before the link has come up. To fix this, we simply use the link event file to ensure both sides see the link as up before continuning. Signed-off-by: Logan Gunthorpe <logang@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Allen Hubbe <Allen.Hubbe@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jon Mason <jdmason@xxxxxxxx> Fixes: a9c59ef77458 ("ntb_test: Add a selftest script for the NTB subsystem") Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- tools/testing/selftests/ntb/ntb_test.sh | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) --- a/tools/testing/selftests/ntb/ntb_test.sh +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/ntb/ntb_test.sh @@ -326,6 +326,10 @@ function ntb_tool_tests() link_test $LOCAL_TOOL $REMOTE_TOOL link_test $REMOTE_TOOL $LOCAL_TOOL + #Ensure the link is up on both sides before continuing + write_file Y $LOCAL_TOOL/link_event + write_file Y $REMOTE_TOOL/link_event + for PEER_TRANS in $(ls $LOCAL_TOOL/peer_trans*); do PT=$(basename $PEER_TRANS) write_file $MW_SIZE $LOCAL_TOOL/$PT Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from logang@xxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.9/ntb-ntb_test-fix-bug-printing-ntb_perf-results.patch queue-4.9/ntb_transport-fix-bug-calculating-num_qps_mw.patch queue-4.9/ntb-ntb_test-ensure-the-link-is-up-before-trying-to-configure-the-mws.patch queue-4.9/ntb_transport-fix-qp-count-bug.patch