The patch below does not apply to the 4.9-stable tree. If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to stable@vger.kernel.org.
thanks,
greg k-h
------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------
From 57c942bc3bef0970f0b21f8e0998e76a900ea80d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alan Brady alan.brady@intel.com Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2022 10:19:17 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] i40e: Fix to stop tx_timeout recovery if GLOBR fails
When a tx_timeout fires, the PF attempts to recover by incrementally resetting. First we try a PFR, then CORER and finally a GLOBR. If the GLOBR fails, then we keep hitting the tx_timeout and incrementing the recovery level and issuing dmesgs, which is both annoying to the user and accomplishes nothing.
If the GLOBR fails, then we're pretty much totally hosed, and there's not much else we can do to recover, so this makes it such that we just kill the VSI and stop hitting the tx_timeout in such a case.
Fixes: 41c445ff0f48 ("i40e: main driver core") Signed-off-by: Alan Brady alan.brady@intel.com Signed-off-by: Mateusz Palczewski mateusz.palczewski@intel.com Tested-by: Gurucharan gurucharanx.g@intel.com (A Contingent worker at Intel) Signed-off-by: Tony Nguyen anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_main.c index b36bf9c3e1e4..9f1d5de7bf16 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_main.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_main.c @@ -384,7 +384,9 @@ static void i40e_tx_timeout(struct net_device *netdev, unsigned int txqueue) set_bit(__I40E_GLOBAL_RESET_REQUESTED, pf->state); break; default: - netdev_err(netdev, "tx_timeout recovery unsuccessful\n"); + netdev_err(netdev, "tx_timeout recovery unsuccessful, device is in non-recoverable state.\n"); + set_bit(__I40E_DOWN_REQUESTED, pf->state); + set_bit(__I40E_VSI_DOWN_REQUESTED, vsi->state); break; }