Thread (10 messages) 10 messages, 2 authors, 2018-05-25

Re: [PATCH net-next 0/8] ibmvnic: Failover hardening

From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Date: 2018-05-25 02:19:50
Also in: 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.
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