[PATCH 5.4 59/98] ibmvnic: notify peers when failover and migration happen

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Tue Dec 01 2020 - 04:22:27 EST


From: Lijun Pan <ljp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

[ Upstream commit 98025bce3a6200a0c4637272a33b5913928ba5b8 ]

Commit 61d3e1d9bc2a ("ibmvnic: Remove netdev notify for failover resets")
excluded the failover case for notify call because it said
netdev_notify_peers() can cause network traffic to stall or halt.
Current testing does not show network traffic stall
or halt because of the notify call for failover event.
netdev_notify_peers may be used when a device wants to inform the
rest of the network about some sort of a reconfiguration
such as failover or migration.

It is unnecessary to call that in other events like
FATAL, NON_FATAL, CHANGE_PARAM, and TIMEOUT resets
since in those scenarios the hardware does not change.
If the driver must do a hard reset, it is necessary to notify peers.

Fixes: 61d3e1d9bc2a ("ibmvnic: Remove netdev notify for failover resets")
Suggested-by: Brian King <brking@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Suggested-by: Pradeep Satyanarayana <pradeeps@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Dany Madden <drt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Lijun Pan <ljp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c | 6 +++++-
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c
index 8d9e95c2725fb..717f793455056 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c
@@ -1994,7 +1994,8 @@ static int do_reset(struct ibmvnic_adapter *adapter,
for (i = 0; i < adapter->req_rx_queues; i++)
napi_schedule(&adapter->napi[i]);

- if (adapter->reset_reason != VNIC_RESET_FAILOVER) {
+ if (adapter->reset_reason == VNIC_RESET_FAILOVER ||
+ adapter->reset_reason == VNIC_RESET_MOBILITY) {
call_netdevice_notifiers(NETDEV_NOTIFY_PEERS, netdev);
call_netdevice_notifiers(NETDEV_RESEND_IGMP, netdev);
}
@@ -2067,6 +2068,9 @@ static int do_hard_reset(struct ibmvnic_adapter *adapter,
if (rc)
return IBMVNIC_OPEN_FAILED;

+ call_netdevice_notifiers(NETDEV_NOTIFY_PEERS, netdev);
+ call_netdevice_notifiers(NETDEV_RESEND_IGMP, netdev);
+
return 0;
}

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