- 23 8月, 2014 3 次提交
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由 Yuval Mintz 提交于
Signed-off-by: NYuval Mintz <Yuval.Mintz@qlogic.com> Signed-off-by: NAriel Elior <Ariel.Elior@qlogic.com> Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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由 Yuval Mintz 提交于
This patch does several semantic things: - Fixing typos. - Removing unnecessary prints. - Removing unused functions and definitions. - Change 'strange' usage of boolean variables. Signed-off-by: NYuval Mintz <Yuval.Mintz@qlogic.com> Signed-off-by: NAriel Elior <Ariel.Elior@qlogic.com> Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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由 Michal Kalderon 提交于
This adds a PHC to the bnx2x driver. Driver supports timestamping send/receive PTP packets, as well as adjusting the on-chip clock. The driver has been tested with linuxptp project. Signed-off-by: NMichal Kalderon <Michal.Kalderon@qlogic.com> Signed-off-by: NYuval Mintz <Yuval.Mintz@qlogic.com> Signed-off-by: NAriel Elior <Ariel.Elior@qlogic.com> Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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- 25 7月, 2014 1 次提交
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由 Dmitry Kravkov 提交于
When TSO packet is transmitted additional BD w/o mapping is used to describe the packed. The BD needs special handling in tx completion. kernel: Call Trace: kernel: <IRQ> [<ffffffff815e19ba>] dump_stack+0x19/0x1b kernel: [<ffffffff8105dee1>] warn_slowpath_common+0x61/0x80 kernel: [<ffffffff8105df5c>] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x5c/0x80 kernel: [<ffffffff814a8c0d>] ? find_iova+0x4d/0x90 kernel: [<ffffffff814ab0e2>] intel_unmap_page.part.36+0x142/0x160 kernel: [<ffffffff814ad0e6>] intel_unmap_page+0x26/0x30 kernel: [<ffffffffa01f55d7>] bnx2x_free_tx_pkt+0x157/0x2b0 [bnx2x] kernel: [<ffffffffa01f8dac>] bnx2x_tx_int+0xac/0x220 [bnx2x] kernel: [<ffffffff8101a0d9>] ? read_tsc+0x9/0x20 kernel: [<ffffffffa01f8fdb>] bnx2x_poll+0xbb/0x3c0 [bnx2x] kernel: [<ffffffff814d041a>] net_rx_action+0x15a/0x250 kernel: [<ffffffff81067047>] __do_softirq+0xf7/0x290 kernel: [<ffffffff815f3a5c>] call_softirq+0x1c/0x30 kernel: [<ffffffff81014d25>] do_softirq+0x55/0x90 kernel: [<ffffffff810673e5>] irq_exit+0x115/0x120 kernel: [<ffffffff815f4358>] do_IRQ+0x58/0xf0 kernel: [<ffffffff815e94ad>] common_interrupt+0x6d/0x6d kernel: <EOI> [<ffffffff810bbff7>] ? clockevents_notify+0x127/0x140 kernel: [<ffffffff814834df>] ? cpuidle_enter_state+0x4f/0xc0 kernel: [<ffffffff81483615>] cpuidle_idle_call+0xc5/0x200 kernel: [<ffffffff8101bc7e>] arch_cpu_idle+0xe/0x30 kernel: [<ffffffff810b4725>] cpu_startup_entry+0xf5/0x290 kernel: [<ffffffff815cfee1>] start_secondary+0x265/0x27b kernel: ---[ end trace 11aa7726f18d7e80 ]--- Fixes: a848ade4 ("bnx2x: add CSUM and TSO support for encapsulation protocols") Reported-by: NYulong Pei <ypei@redhat.com> Cc: Michal Schmidt <mschmidt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NDmitry Kravkov <Dmitry.Kravkov@qlogic.com> Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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- 02 7月, 2014 2 次提交
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由 Dmitry Kravkov 提交于
This improves the performance of driver on machine with L1_CACHE_SHIFT of at most 32 bytes [HW was planned for 64-byte aligned fastpath data]. Signed-off-by: NDmitry Kravkov <Dmitry.Kravkov@qlogic.com> Signed-off-by: NYuval Mintz <Yuval.Mintz@qlogic.com> Signed-off-by: NAriel Elior <Ariel.Elior@qlogic.com> Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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由 Dmitry Kravkov 提交于
Until now VFs were oblvious to the actual configured link parameters. This patch does 2 things: 1. It enables a PF to inform its VF using the bulletin board of the link configured, and allows the VF to present that information. 2. It adds support of `ndo_set_vf_link_state', allowing the hypervisor to set the VF link state. Signed-off-by: NDmitry Kravkov <Dmitry.Kravkov@qlogic.com> Signed-off-by: NYuval Mintz <Yuval.Mintz@qlogic.com> Signed-off-by: NAriel Elior <Ariel.Elior@qlogic.com> Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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- 31 5月, 2014 1 次提交
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由 Ariel Elior 提交于
The bnx2x development team has transferred from Broadcom to Qlogic. This patch updates some obsolete email addresses to usable ones. The bnx2x files contain headers with legal information from Broadcom. Qlogic Legal depratment is taking their time coming up with their own legal info. So this patch only updates contact information. I will follow up with a patch for the headers once I have the required info. Signed-off-by: NAriel Elior <ariel.elior@qlogic.com> Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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- 26 3月, 2014 3 次提交
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由 Yuval Mintz 提交于
Since we now posses a workqueue dedicated for sriov, the paradigm that sriov- related tasks cannot sleep is no longer correct. The VFOP mechanism was the one previously supporting said paradigm - the sriov related tasks were broken into segments which did not require sleep, and the mechanism re-scheduled the next segment whenever possible. This patch remvoes the VFOP mechanism altogether - the resulting code is a much easier to follow code; The segments are gathered into straight-forward functions which sleep whenever neccessary. Signed-off-by: NYuval Mintz <Yuval.Mintz@qlogic.com> Signed-off-by: NAriel Elior <Ariel.Elior@qlogic.com> Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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由 Yuval Mintz 提交于
The bnx2x sriov mechanisms were done in the bnx2x slowpath workitem which runs on the bnx2x's workqueue; This workitem is also responsible for the bottom half of interrupt handling in the driver, and specifically it also receives FW notifications of ramrod completions, allowing other flows to progress. The original design of the sriov reltaed-flows was based on the notion such flows must not sleep, since their context is the slowpath workitem. Otherwise, we might reach timeouts - those flows may wait for ramrod completion that will never arrive as the workitem wlll not be re-scheduled until that same flow will be over. In more recent time bnx2x started supporting features in which the VF interface can be configured by the tools accessing the PF on the hypervisor. This support created possible races on the VF-PF lock (which is taken either when the PF is handling a VF message or when the PF is doing some slowpath work on behalf of the VF) which may cause timeouts on the VF side and lags on the PF side. This patch changes the scheme - it creates a new workqueue for sriov related tasks and moves all handling currently done in the slowpath task into the the new workqueue. Signed-off-by: NYuval Mintz <Yuval.Mintz@qlogic.com> Signed-off-by: NAriel Elior <Ariel.Elior@qlogic.com> Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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由 Yuval Mintz 提交于
This adds support in a new management feature which needs the driver versions (bnx2x, bnx2fc and bnx2i) loaded for each interface. Signed-off-by: NYuval Mintz <Yuval.Mintz@qlogic.com> Signed-off-by: NAriel Elior <Ariel.Elior@qlogic.com> Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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- 13 2月, 2014 4 次提交
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由 Dmitry Kravkov 提交于
This new firmware fixes following bugs: 1. HW attention appears and traffic stops when iSCSI firmware tries to retransmit iSCSI login command when the iSCSI login is carrying data not aligned to 4-bytes. 2. FCoE traffic fails to run when running in switch-independent multi-function mode and there's more than one interface supporting FCoE on a given port. 3. While two ports are running FCoE with at least one of them has a function number (>1) on the same engine in a 4-port device a zeroed CQE is given, causing FCoE traffic to stop. Signed-off-by: NDmitry Kravkov <dmitry@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: NYuval Mintz <yuvalmin@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: NAriel Elior <ariele@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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由 Yuval Mintz 提交于
This removes the various points where the driver use bit operations in order to schedule the sp_rtnl_task from the code, adding a single utility function that does it instead. Signed-off-by: NYuval Mintz <yuvalmin@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: NAriel Elior <ariele@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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由 Michal Kalderon 提交于
This provides PF-side support for VFs assigned to a VM running windows 2012 with the RSC feature enabled. Signed-off-by: NMichal Kalderon <michals@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: NYuval Mintz <yuvalmin@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: NAriel Elior <ariele@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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由 Yuval Mintz 提交于
There are some debug prints (mostly iov/statistics related) which clobber system logs whenever their verbosity level is set for an interface. This patch puts harsher verbosity requirements for such debug prints to be printed. Signed-off-by: NYuval Mintz <yuvalmin@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: NAriel Elior <ariele@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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- 15 1月, 2014 1 次提交
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由 Yuval Mintz 提交于
With this patch bnx2x will configure the PF to perform Tx switching on out-going traffic as soon as SR-IOV is dynamically enabled and de-activate it when it is disabled. This will allow VFs to communicate with their parent PFs. Signed-off-by: NYuval Mintz <yuvalmin@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: NAriel Elior <ariele@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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- 14 1月, 2014 1 次提交
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由 stephen hemminger 提交于
Fix a bunch of whole lot of namespace issues with the Broadcom bnx2x driver found by running 'make namespacecheck' * global variables must be prefixed with bnx2x_ naming a variable int_mode, or num_queue is invitation to disaster * make local functions static * move some inline's used in one file out of header (this driver has a bad case of inline-itis) * remove resulting dead code fallout bnx2x_pfc_statistic, bnx2x_emac_get_pfc_stat bnx2x_init_vlan_mac_obj, Looks like vlan mac support in this driver was a botch from day one either never worked, or not implemented or missing support functions Compile tested only. Signed-off-by: NStephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org> Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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- 10 1月, 2014 1 次提交
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由 Yuval Mintz 提交于
Starting with commit 80c33ddd "net: add might_sleep() call to napi_disable" bnx2x fails the might_sleep tests causing a stack trace to appear whenever the driver is unloaded, as local_bh_disable() is being called before napi_disable(). This changes the locking schematics related to CONFIG_NET_RX_BUSY_POLL, preventing the need for calling local_bh_disable() and thus eliminating the issue. Signed-off-by: NYuval Mintz <yuvalmin@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: NDmitry Kravkov <dmitry@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: NAriel Elior <ariele@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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- 06 1月, 2014 2 次提交
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由 Yuval Mintz 提交于
There are 2 different (related) flows in the slowpath configuration that utilize the same pointer and cast it to different structs; This is obviously incorrect as the intended allocated memory is that of the smaller struct, possibly causing the flow utilizing the larger struct to corrupt other slowpath configuration. Since both flows are exclusive, set the allocated memory to be a union of both structs. Reported-by: NDan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: NYuval Mintz <yuvalmin@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: NAriel Elior <ariele@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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由 Dmitry Kravkov 提交于
Original straightforward division may lead to zeroing number of SB and null-pointer dereference when device is short of MSIX vectors or lacks MSIX capabilities. Reported-by: NVladislav Zolotarov <vladz@cloudius-systems.com> Signed-off-by: NDmitry Kravkov <dmitry@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: NYuval Mintz <yuvalmin@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: NAriel Elior <ariele@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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- 27 12月, 2013 2 次提交
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由 Yuval Mintz 提交于
This function adds several OS calls required to fully enable PCIe AER support - pci_enable_pcie_error_reporting() and pci_cleanup_aer_uncorrect_error_status(). Signed-off-by: NYuval Mintz <yuvalmin@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: NAriel Elior <ariele@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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由 Yuval Mintz 提交于
This adds the ability for bnx2x to load after UNDI is used in the preboot environment on a multi-function interface which is not the first interface of a given device. Notice a side-effect is that the order by which the functions are probed and thus interfaces appear might change, as this patch utilizes the EPROBE_DEFER return value (and mechanism). Signed-off-by: NYuval Mintz <yuvalmin@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: NAriel Elior <ariele@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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- 20 12月, 2013 1 次提交
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由 Tom Herbert 提交于
Save pkt_hash_types in tpa structure. Signed-off-by: NTom Herbert <therbert@google.com> Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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- 19 11月, 2013 1 次提交
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由 Dmitry Kravkov 提交于
Current driver release rtnl lock in between DCB re-configuration. As a result, other flows (e.g., mtu config) may enter in between and fail due to halted tx path for dcb configuration. Signed-off-by: NDmitry Kravkov <dmitry@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: NYuval Mintz <yuvalmin@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: NAriel Elior <ariele@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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- 22 10月, 2013 5 次提交
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由 Merav Sicron 提交于
Current driver implementation incorrectly sets the flag only if 64-bit DMA mask succeeded. Signed-off-by: NMerav Sicron <meravs@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: NYuval Mintz <yuvalmin@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: NAriel Elior <ariele@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: NEilon Greenstein <eilong@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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由 Ariel Elior 提交于
bnx2x has several clients to its DMAE machines - all of them with the exception of the statistics flow used the same locking mechanisms to synchronize the DMAE machines' usage. Since statistics (which are periodically entered) use DMAE without taking the locks, they may erase the commands which were previously set - e.g., it may cause a VF to timeout while waiting for a PF answer on the VF-PF channel as that command header would have been overwritten by the statistics' header. This patch makes certain that all flows utilizing DMAE will use the same API, assuring that the locking scheme will be kept by all said flows. Signed-off-by: NAriel Elior <ariele@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: NYuval Mintz <yuvalmin@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: NEilon Greenstein <eilong@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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由 Ariel Elior 提交于
Starting with commit b9871bcf "bnx2x: VF RSS support - PF side", if a PF will have SR-IOV supported in its PCI configuration space, storage drivers will not work for that interface. This patch fixes the resource calculation to allow such a configuration to properly work. Signed-off-by: NAriel Elior <ariele@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: NYuval Mintz <yuvalmin@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: NEilon Greenstein <eilong@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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由 Dmitry Kravkov 提交于
bnx2x drivers configure coalescing incorrectly (e.g., as a result of a call to 'ethtool -c'). Although this is almost invisible to the user (due to NAPI) designated tests will show the configuration is incorrect. Signed-off-by: NDmitry Kravkov <dmitry@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: NYuval Mintz <yuvalmin@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: NAriel Elior <ariele@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: NEilon Greenstein <eilong@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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由 Yuval Mintz 提交于
During a panic, the driver tries to print the Management FW buffer of recent commands. To do so, the driver reads the address of that buffer from a known address. If the buffer is unavailable (e.g., PCI reads don't work, MCP is failing, etc.), the driver will try to access the address it has read, possibly causing a kernel panic. This check 'sanitizes' the access, validating the read value is indeed a valid address inside the management FW's buffers. The patch also removes a read outside the scope of the buffer, which resulted in some unrelated chraracters appearing in the log. Signed-off-by: NYuval Mintz <yuvalmin@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: NDmitry Kravkov <dmitry@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: NEilon Greenstein <eilong@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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- 10 10月, 2013 1 次提交
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由 Yuval Mintz 提交于
Each network interface (either PF or VF) is identified by its port's MAC id. Signed-off-by: NYuval Mintz <yuvalmin@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: NAriel Elior <ariele@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: NEilon Greenstein <eilong@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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- 29 9月, 2013 2 次提交
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由 Yuval Mintz 提交于
Use common code for getting the pcie link speed/width for debug printing. Signed-off-by: NYuval Mintz <yuvalmin@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: NAriel Elior <ariele@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: NEilon Greenstein <eilong@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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由 Yuval Mintz 提交于
When running ethtool on VF interfaces, returning values should indicate that the interface does not support self-test or register dump. Signed-off-by: NYuval Mintz <yuvalmin@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: NAriel Elior <ariele@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: NEilon Greenstein <eilong@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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- 19 9月, 2013 1 次提交
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由 Michael Chan 提交于
commit b9871bcf bnx2x: VF RSS support - PF side changed the configuration of the doorbell HW and it broke iSCSI and FCoE. We fix this by making compatible changes to the doorbell address in bnx2i and bnx2fc. For the userspace driver, we need to pass a modified CID so that the existing userspace driver will calculate the correct doorbell address and continue to work. Signed-off-by: NAriel Elior <ariele@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: NEddie Wai <eddie.wai@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: NMichael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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- 14 9月, 2013 1 次提交
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由 Jon Mason 提交于
Use the already existing pm_cap variable in struct pci_dev for determining the power management offset. This saves the driver from having to keep track of an extra variable. Signed-off-by: NJon Mason <jdmason@kudzu.us> Cc: Eilon Greenstein <eilong@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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- 06 9月, 2013 1 次提交
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由 Ariel Elior 提交于
This patch adds support for Receive Side Scaling for queues of Virtual Functions on the PF side. This includes support for the requests for multiple queues from VF drivers, configuration of the HW for multiple queues per VF, and support for rss configuration of said queues. Signed-off-by: NAriel Elior <ariele@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: NEilon Greenstein <eilong@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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- 30 8月, 2013 1 次提交
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由 Joe Perches 提交于
__GFP_ZERO is an uncommon flag and perhaps is better not used. static inline dma_zalloc_coherent exists so convert the uses of dma_alloc_coherent with __GFP_ZERO to the more common kernel style with zalloc. Remove memset from the static inline dma_zalloc_coherent and add just one use of __GFP_ZERO instead. Trivially reduces the size of the existing uses of dma_zalloc_coherent. Realign arguments as appropriate. Signed-off-by: NJoe Perches <joe@perches.com> Acked-by: NNeil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> Acked-by: NJesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com> Acked-by: NJeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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- 20 8月, 2013 1 次提交
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由 Dmitry Kravkov 提交于
After notification that DCBX configuration has ended arrived to the driver, the driver configured the FW/HW in sleepless context. As a result, it was possible to reach a race (mostly with CNIC registration) in which the configuration will return a timeout, failing to set the DCBX results correctly. This patch moves the configuration following the DCBX end into the slowpath RTNL task (i.e., sleepless context protected by the RTNL lock), allowing the configuration to cope with such races. Signed-off-by: NDmitry Kravkov <dmitry@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: NYuval Mintz <yuvalmin@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: NAriel Elior <ariele@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: NEilon Greenstein <eilong@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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- 14 8月, 2013 3 次提交
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由 Barak Witkowsky 提交于
PTE write access error might occur in MF_ALLOWED mode when IOMMU is active. The patch adds rmmod HSI indicating to MFW to stop running queries which might trigger this failure. Signed-off-by: NBarak Witkowsky <barak@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: NDmitry Kravkov <dmitry@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: NAriel Elior <ariele@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: NEilon Greenstein <eilong@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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由 Dmitry Kravkov 提交于
ETS can be enabled as a result of DCB negotiation, then fairness must be recalculated after each negotiation. Signed-off-by: NDmitry Kravkov <dmitry@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: NAriel Elior <ariele@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: NEilon Greenstein <eilong@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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由 Dmitry Kravkov 提交于
Add locking to protect different statistics flows from running simultaneously. This in order to serialize statistics requests sent to FW, otherwise two outstanding queries may cause FW assert. Signed-off-by: NDmitry Kravkov <dmitry@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: NAriel Elior <ariele@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: NEilon Greenstein <eilong@broadcom.com> Acked-by: NNeal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com> Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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- 02 8月, 2013 1 次提交
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由 Yuval Mintz 提交于
On very rare occasions, repeated load/unload stress test in the presence of our storage driver (bnx2i/bnx2fc) causes a kernel panic in bnx2x code (NULL pointer dereference). Stack traces indicate the issue happens during MAC configuration; thorough code review showed that indeed several races exist in which one thread can iterate over the list of configured MACs while another deletes entries from the same list. This patch adds a varient on the single-writer/Multiple-reader lock mechanism - It utilizes an already exsiting bottom-half lock, using it so that Whenever a writer is unable to continue due to the existence of another writer/reader, it pends its request for future deliverance. The writer / last readers will check for the existence of such requests and perform them instead of the original initiator. This prevents the writer from having to sleep while waiting for the lock to be accessible, which might cause deadlocks given the locks already held by the writer. Another result of this patch is that setting of Rx Mode is now made in sleepable context - Setting of Rx Mode is made under a bottom-half lock, which was always nontrivial for the bnx2x driver, as the HW/FW configuration requires wait for completions. Since sleep was impossible (due to the sleepless-context), various mechanisms were utilized to prevent the calling thread from sleep, but the truth was that when the caller thread (i.e, the one calling ndo_set_rx_mode()) returned, the Rx mode was still not set in HW/FW. bnx2x_set_rx_mode() will now overtly schedule for the Rx changes to be configured by the sp_rtnl_task which hold the RTNL lock and is sleepable context. Signed-off-by: NYuval Mintz <yuvalmin@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: NAriel Elior <ariele@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: NEilon Greenstein <eilong@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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