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mlx4: decreasing ref count when removing mac

Message ID 4E3A7CE8.4080407@mellanox.co.il
State Accepted, archived
Delegated to: David Miller
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Yevgeny Petrilin Aug. 4, 2011, 11:05 a.m. UTC
For older FW versions, when a Mac address removed from Mac table,
we should set 0 for reference count for the corresponding Mac index.
Fixes a bug where removing Mac from the table still left that entry as
invalid.

Signed-off-by: Yevgeny Petrilin <yevgenyp@mellanox.co.il>
---
 drivers/net/mlx4/port.c |    9 ++++++---
 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

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Roland Dreier Aug. 4, 2011, 12:55 p.m. UTC | #1
> For older FW versions, when a Mac address removed from Mac table,
> we should set 0 for reference count for the corresponding Mac index.
> Fixes a bug where removing Mac from the table still left that entry as
> invalid.

This fixes my problems with MTU settings with old FW.

Tested-by: Roland Dreier <roland@purestorage.com>
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David Miller Aug. 5, 2011, 10:36 a.m. UTC | #2
From: Roland Dreier <roland@kernel.org>
Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2011 05:55:39 -0700

>> For older FW versions, when a Mac address removed from Mac table,
>> we should set 0 for reference count for the corresponding Mac index.
>> Fixes a bug where removing Mac from the table still left that entry as
>> invalid.
> 
> This fixes my problems with MTU settings with old FW.
> 
> Tested-by: Roland Dreier <roland@purestorage.com>

Applied, thanks everyone.
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Patch

diff --git a/drivers/net/mlx4/port.c b/drivers/net/mlx4/port.c
index 1f95afd..609e0ec 100644
--- a/drivers/net/mlx4/port.c
+++ b/drivers/net/mlx4/port.c
@@ -258,9 +258,12 @@  void mlx4_unregister_mac(struct mlx4_dev *dev, u8 port, int qpn)
 	if (validate_index(dev, table, index))
 		goto out;
 
-	table->entries[index] = 0;
-	mlx4_set_port_mac_table(dev, port, table->entries);
-	--table->total;
+	/* Check whether this address has reference count */
+	if (!(--table->refs[index])) {
+		table->entries[index] = 0;
+		mlx4_set_port_mac_table(dev, port, table->entries);
+		--table->total;
+	}
 out:
 	mutex_unlock(&table->mutex);
 }