Re: [PATCH net-next 0/8] ibmvnic: Failover hardening
From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Date: 2018-05-25 02:19:50
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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Date: 2018-05-25 02:19:50
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linuxppc-dev
From: Thomas Falcon <redacted> Date: Wed, 23 May 2018 13:37:54 -0500
Introduce additional transport event hardening to handle events during device reset. In the driver's current state, if a transport event is received during device reset, it can cause the device to become unresponsive as invalid operations are processed as the backing device context changes. After a transport event, the device expects a request to begin the initialization process. If the driver is still processing a previously queued device reset in this state, it is likely to fail as firmware will reject any commands other than the one to initialize the client driver's Command-Response Queue. Instead of failing and becoming dormant, the driver will make one more attempt to recover and continue operation. This is achieved by setting a state flag, which if true will direct the driver to clean up all allocated resources and perform a hard reset in an attempt to bring the driver back to an operational state.
Series applied.