From 41e8c94b3dde2995f4fabd20017a6a5ab84b8002 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jakub Kicinski Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2019 11:38:39 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] nfp: disable netpoll on representors 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 f24375c20749 ("nfp: general representor implementation") .ndo_poll_controller was required for netpoll to be enabled. Fixes: 5d2d5c133758 ("netpoll: make ndo_poll_controller() optional") Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Reviewed-by: John Hurley Reviewed-by: Simon Horman Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- drivers/net/ethernet/netronome/nfp/nfp_net_repr.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/netronome/nfp/nfp_net_repr.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/netronome/nfp/nfp_net_repr.c index 7b46fce2e81e0..94d228c044963 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)) { -- 2.39.5