[Bionic PATCH 13/19] ibmvnic: Wait until reset is complete to set carrier on

Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo cascardo at canonical.com
Tue Feb 27 15:12:09 UTC 2018


From: Thomas Falcon <tlfalcon at linux.vnet.ibm.com>

BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1748517

Pushes back setting the carrier on until the end of the reset
code. This resolves a bug where a watchdog timer was detecting
that a TX queue had stalled before the adapter reset was complete.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Falcon <tlfalcon at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
(cherry picked from commit cc85c02edfe48a34865ae00f7d22298a3fdd17aa)
Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c
index c67e4cfc8d1b..49e893009cfe 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c
@@ -1670,8 +1670,6 @@ static int do_reset(struct ibmvnic_adapter *adapter,
 		return 0;
 	}
 
-	netif_carrier_on(netdev);
-
 	/* kick napi */
 	for (i = 0; i < adapter->req_rx_queues; i++)
 		napi_schedule(&adapter->napi[i]);
@@ -1679,6 +1677,8 @@ static int do_reset(struct ibmvnic_adapter *adapter,
 	if (adapter->reset_reason != VNIC_RESET_FAILOVER)
 		netdev_notify_peers(netdev);
 
+	netif_carrier_on(netdev);
+
 	return 0;
 }
 
-- 
2.15.1





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