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[net,2/2] nfp: disable netpoll on representors

Message ID 20190327183839.18889-3-jakub.kicinski@netronome.com
State Accepted
Delegated to: David Miller
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Series nfp: fix retcode and disable netpoll on representors | expand

Commit Message

Jakub Kicinski March 27, 2019, 6:38 p.m. UTC
NFP reprs are software device on top of the PF's vNIC.
The comment above __dev_queue_xmit() sayeth:

 When calling this method, interrupts MUST be enabled.  This is because
 the BH enable code must have IRQs enabled so that it will not deadlock.

For netconsole we can't guarantee IRQ state, let's just
disable netpoll on representors to be on the safe side.

When the initial implementation of NFP reprs was added by the
commit 5de73ee46704 ("nfp: general representor implementation")
.ndo_poll_controller was required for netpoll to be enabled.

Fixes: ac3d9dd034e5 ("netpoll: make ndo_poll_controller() optional")
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@netronome.com>
Reviewed-by: John Hurley <john.hurley@netronome.com>
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <simon.horman@netronome.com>
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 drivers/net/ethernet/netronome/nfp/nfp_net_repr.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
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diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/netronome/nfp/nfp_net_repr.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/netronome/nfp/nfp_net_repr.c
index 7b46fce2e81e..94d228c04496 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/netronome/nfp/nfp_net_repr.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/netronome/nfp/nfp_net_repr.c
@@ -383,7 +383,7 @@  int nfp_repr_init(struct nfp_app *app, struct net_device *netdev,
 	netdev->features &= ~(NETIF_F_TSO | NETIF_F_TSO6);
 	netdev->gso_max_segs = NFP_NET_LSO_MAX_SEGS;
 
-	netdev->priv_flags |= IFF_NO_QUEUE;
+	netdev->priv_flags |= IFF_NO_QUEUE | IFF_DISABLE_NETPOLL;
 	netdev->features |= NETIF_F_LLTX;
 
 	if (nfp_app_has_tc(app)) {