6.12-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Jacob Keller jacob.e.keller@intel.com
[ 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@oracle.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/intel-wired-lan/20240301235837.3741422-1-yifei.l.liu... Signed-off-by: Jacob Keller jacob.e.keller@intel.com Reviewed-by: Przemek Kitszel przemyslaw.kitszel@intel.com Tested-by: Rafal Romanowski rafal.romanowski@intel.com Signed-off-by: Tony Nguyen anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin sashal@kernel.org --- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_common.h | 2 ++ drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_sriov.c | 2 +- 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_common.h b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_common.h index 6493abf189de5..6639069ad5283 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_common.h +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_common.h @@ -194,6 +194,8 @@ 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 e71715f5da228..20415c1238ef8 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_sriov.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_sriov.c @@ -1047,7 +1047,7 @@ 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; }