[3.11.y.z extended stable] Patch "igb: do a reset on SR-IOV re-init if device is down" has been added to staging queue

Luis Henriques luis.henriques at canonical.com
Wed Jul 30 12:47:14 UTC 2014


This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    igb: do a reset on SR-IOV re-init if device is down

to the linux-3.11.y-queue branch of the 3.11.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.11.y-queue

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.11.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From a36b59faf54fc38ef7601b7ea1f15d06edbb999e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Stefan Assmann <sassmann at kpanic.de>
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2014 03:29:39 -0700
Subject: igb: do a reset on SR-IOV re-init if device is down

commit 76252723e88681628a3dbb9c09c963e095476f73 upstream.

To properly re-initialize SR-IOV it is necessary to reset the device
even if it is already down. Not doing this may result in Tx unit hangs.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Assmann <sassmann at kpanic.de>
Tested-by: Aaron Brown <aaron.f.brown at intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher at intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c
index c1d72c03cb59..928385e6449b 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c
@@ -7231,6 +7231,8 @@ static int igb_sriov_reinit(struct pci_dev *dev)

 	if (netif_running(netdev))
 		igb_close(netdev);
+	else
+		igb_reset(adapter);

 	igb_clear_interrupt_scheme(adapter);

--
1.9.1





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