Patch "ibmvnic: Fix overflowing firmware/hardware TX queue" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    ibmvnic: Fix overflowing firmware/hardware TX queue

to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     ibmvnic-fix-overflowing-firmware-hardware-tx-queue.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From foo@baz Tue Dec 12 13:26:17 CET 2017
From: Thomas Falcon <tlfalcon@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2017 12:18:41 -0600
Subject: ibmvnic: Fix overflowing firmware/hardware TX queue

From: Thomas Falcon <tlfalcon@linux.vnet.ibm.com>


[ Upstream commit 142c0ac445792c492579cb01f1cfd4e32e6dfcce ]

Use a counter to track the number of outstanding transmissions sent
that have not received completions. If the counter reaches the maximum
number of queue entries, stop transmissions on that queue. As we receive
more completions from firmware, wake the queue once the counter reaches
an acceptable level.

This patch prevents hardware/firmware TX queue from filling up and
and generating errors.  Since incorporating this fix, internal testing
has reported that these firmware errors have stopped.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Falcon <tlfalcon@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@verizon.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c |   27 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.h |    1 +
 2 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c
@@ -705,6 +705,7 @@ static int ibmvnic_xmit(struct sk_buff *
 	u8 *hdrs = (u8 *)&adapter->tx_rx_desc_req;
 	struct device *dev = &adapter->vdev->dev;
 	struct ibmvnic_tx_buff *tx_buff = NULL;
+	struct ibmvnic_sub_crq_queue *tx_scrq;
 	struct ibmvnic_tx_pool *tx_pool;
 	unsigned int tx_send_failed = 0;
 	unsigned int tx_map_failed = 0;
@@ -724,6 +725,7 @@ static int ibmvnic_xmit(struct sk_buff *
 	int ret = 0;
 
 	tx_pool = &adapter->tx_pool[queue_num];
+	tx_scrq = adapter->tx_scrq[queue_num];
 	txq = netdev_get_tx_queue(netdev, skb_get_queue_mapping(skb));
 	handle_array = (u64 *)((u8 *)(adapter->login_rsp_buf) +
 				   be32_to_cpu(adapter->login_rsp_buf->
@@ -826,6 +828,14 @@ static int ibmvnic_xmit(struct sk_buff *
 		ret = NETDEV_TX_BUSY;
 		goto out;
 	}
+
+	atomic_inc(&tx_scrq->used);
+
+	if (atomic_read(&tx_scrq->used) >= adapter->req_tx_entries_per_subcrq) {
+		netdev_info(netdev, "Stopping queue %d\n", queue_num);
+		netif_stop_subqueue(netdev, queue_num);
+	}
+
 	tx_packets++;
 	tx_bytes += skb->len;
 	txq->trans_start = jiffies;
@@ -1220,6 +1230,7 @@ static struct ibmvnic_sub_crq_queue *ini
 	scrq->adapter = adapter;
 	scrq->size = 4 * PAGE_SIZE / sizeof(*scrq->msgs);
 	scrq->cur = 0;
+	atomic_set(&scrq->used, 0);
 	scrq->rx_skb_top = NULL;
 	spin_lock_init(&scrq->lock);
 
@@ -1368,8 +1379,22 @@ restart_loop:
 						 DMA_TO_DEVICE);
 			}
 
-			if (txbuff->last_frag)
+			if (txbuff->last_frag) {
+				atomic_dec(&scrq->used);
+
+				if (atomic_read(&scrq->used) <=
+				    (adapter->req_tx_entries_per_subcrq / 2) &&
+				    netif_subqueue_stopped(adapter->netdev,
+							   txbuff->skb)) {
+					netif_wake_subqueue(adapter->netdev,
+							    scrq->pool_index);
+					netdev_dbg(adapter->netdev,
+						   "Started queue %d\n",
+						   scrq->pool_index);
+				}
+
 				dev_kfree_skb_any(txbuff->skb);
+			}
 
 			adapter->tx_pool[pool].free_map[adapter->tx_pool[pool].
 						     producer_index] = index;
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.h
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.h
@@ -863,6 +863,7 @@ struct ibmvnic_sub_crq_queue {
 	spinlock_t lock;
 	struct sk_buff *rx_skb_top;
 	struct ibmvnic_adapter *adapter;
+	atomic_t used;
 };
 
 struct ibmvnic_long_term_buff {


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from tlfalcon@linux.vnet.ibm.com are

queue-4.9/ibmvnic-allocate-number-of-rx-tx-buffers-agreed-on-by-firmware.patch
queue-4.9/ibmvnic-fix-overflowing-firmware-hardware-tx-queue.patch