[PATCH net-next 0/2] Allow disabling pause frames on panic

From: Florian Fainelli
Date: Mon Nov 03 2025 - 14:49:44 EST


This patch set allows disabling pause frame generation upon encountering
a kernel panic. This has proven to be helpful in lab environments where
devices are still being worked on, will panic for various reasons, and
will occasionally take down the entire Ethernet switch they are attached
to.

Florian Fainelli (2):
net: ethernet: Allow disabling pause on panic
net: bcmgenet: Support calling set_pauseparam from panic context

Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-net | 16 ++++
drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/genet/bcmmii.c | 9 +-
include/linux/netdevice.h | 1 +
net/core/net-sysfs.c | 34 +++++++
net/ethernet/Makefile | 3 +-
net/ethernet/pause_panic.c | 95 ++++++++++++++++++++
6 files changed, 154 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 net/ethernet/pause_panic.c

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