This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled bnx2x: Force fundamental reset for EEH recovery to the 3.14-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: bnx2x-force-fundamental-reset-for-eeh-recovery.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.14 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From da293700568ed3d96fcf062ac15d7d7c41377f11 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Brian King <brking@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2015 08:09:44 -0600 Subject: bnx2x: Force fundamental reset for EEH recovery From: Brian King <brking@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit da293700568ed3d96fcf062ac15d7d7c41377f11 upstream. EEH recovery for bnx2x based adapters is not reliable on all Power systems using the default hot reset, which can result in an unrecoverable EEH error. Forcing the use of fundamental reset during EEH recovery fixes this. Signed-off-by: Brian King <brking@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x_main.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x_main.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x_main.c @@ -12395,6 +12395,9 @@ static int bnx2x_init_dev(struct bnx2x * pci_write_config_dword(bp->pdev, PCICFG_GRC_ADDRESS, PCICFG_VENDOR_ID_OFFSET); + /* Set PCIe reset type to fundamental for EEH recovery */ + pdev->needs_freset = 1; + /* AER (Advanced Error reporting) configuration */ rc = pci_enable_pcie_error_reporting(pdev); if (!rc) Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from brking@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.14/bnx2x-force-fundamental-reset-for-eeh-recovery.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html