[PATCH AUTOSEL 4.14 082/123] e1000e: fix cyclic resets at link up with active tx

From: Sasha Levin
Date: Wed Mar 27 2019 - 14:48:55 EST


From: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

[ Upstream commit 0f9e980bf5ee1a97e2e401c846b2af989eb21c61 ]

I'm seeing series of e1000e resets (sometimes endless) at system boot
if something generates tx traffic at this time. In my case this is
netconsole who sends message "e1000e 0000:02:00.0: Some CPU C-states
have been disabled in order to enable jumbo frames" from e1000e itself.
As result e1000_watchdog_task sees used tx buffer while carrier is off
and start this reset cycle again.

[ 17.794359] e1000e: eth1 NIC Link is Up 1000 Mbps Full Duplex, Flow Control: None
[ 17.794714] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth1: link becomes ready
[ 22.936455] e1000e 0000:02:00.0 eth1: changing MTU from 1500 to 9000
[ 23.033336] e1000e 0000:02:00.0: Some CPU C-states have been disabled in order to enable jumbo frames
[ 26.102364] e1000e: eth1 NIC Link is Up 1000 Mbps Full Duplex, Flow Control: None
[ 27.174495] 8021q: 802.1Q VLAN Support v1.8
[ 27.174513] 8021q: adding VLAN 0 to HW filter on device eth1
[ 30.671724] cgroup: cgroup: disabling cgroup2 socket matching due to net_prio or net_cls activation
[ 30.898564] netpoll: netconsole: local port 6666
[ 30.898566] netpoll: netconsole: local IPv6 address 2a02:6b8:0:80b:beae:c5ff:fe28:23f8
[ 30.898567] netpoll: netconsole: interface 'eth1'
[ 30.898568] netpoll: netconsole: remote port 6666
[ 30.898568] netpoll: netconsole: remote IPv6 address 2a02:6b8:b000:605c:e61d:2dff:fe03:3790
[ 30.898569] netpoll: netconsole: remote ethernet address b0:a8:6e:f4:ff:c0
[ 30.917747] console [netcon0] enabled
[ 30.917749] netconsole: network logging started
[ 31.453353] e1000e 0000:02:00.0: Some CPU C-states have been disabled in order to enable jumbo frames
[ 34.185730] e1000e 0000:02:00.0: Some CPU C-states have been disabled in order to enable jumbo frames
[ 34.321840] e1000e 0000:02:00.0: Some CPU C-states have been disabled in order to enable jumbo frames
[ 34.465822] e1000e 0000:02:00.0: Some CPU C-states have been disabled in order to enable jumbo frames
[ 34.597423] e1000e 0000:02:00.0: Some CPU C-states have been disabled in order to enable jumbo frames
[ 34.745417] e1000e 0000:02:00.0: Some CPU C-states have been disabled in order to enable jumbo frames
[ 34.877356] e1000e 0000:02:00.0: Some CPU C-states have been disabled in order to enable jumbo frames
[ 35.005441] e1000e 0000:02:00.0: Some CPU C-states have been disabled in order to enable jumbo frames
[ 35.157376] e1000e 0000:02:00.0: Some CPU C-states have been disabled in order to enable jumbo frames
[ 35.289362] e1000e 0000:02:00.0: Some CPU C-states have been disabled in order to enable jumbo frames
[ 35.417441] e1000e 0000:02:00.0: Some CPU C-states have been disabled in order to enable jumbo frames
[ 37.790342] e1000e: eth1 NIC Link is Up 1000 Mbps Full Duplex, Flow Control: None

This patch flushes tx buffers only once when carrier is off
rather than at each watchdog iteration.

Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Aaron Brown <aaron.f.brown@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/netdev.c | 15 ++++++---------
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/netdev.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/netdev.c
index 5c364321d3c6..3c214a47c1c4 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/netdev.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/netdev.c
@@ -5306,8 +5306,13 @@ static void e1000_watchdog_task(struct work_struct *work)
/* 8000ES2LAN requires a Rx packet buffer work-around
* on link down event; reset the controller to flush
* the Rx packet buffer.
+ *
+ * If the link is lost the controller stops DMA, but
+ * if there is queued Tx work it cannot be done. So
+ * reset the controller to flush the Tx packet buffers.
*/
- if (adapter->flags & FLAG_RX_NEEDS_RESTART)
+ if ((adapter->flags & FLAG_RX_NEEDS_RESTART) ||
+ e1000_desc_unused(tx_ring) + 1 < tx_ring->count)
adapter->flags |= FLAG_RESTART_NOW;
else
pm_schedule_suspend(netdev->dev.parent,
@@ -5330,14 +5335,6 @@ static void e1000_watchdog_task(struct work_struct *work)
adapter->gotc_old = adapter->stats.gotc;
spin_unlock(&adapter->stats64_lock);

- /* If the link is lost the controller stops DMA, but
- * if there is queued Tx work it cannot be done. So
- * reset the controller to flush the Tx packet buffers.
- */
- if (!netif_carrier_ok(netdev) &&
- (e1000_desc_unused(tx_ring) + 1 < tx_ring->count))
- adapter->flags |= FLAG_RESTART_NOW;
-
/* If reset is necessary, do it outside of interrupt context. */
if (adapter->flags & FLAG_RESTART_NOW) {
schedule_work(&adapter->reset_task);
--
2.19.1