[PATCH net] bnxt_en: Make PTP timestamp HWRM more silent

Breno Leitao
2024-01-25T13:41:14Z

commit 056bce63c469 ("bnxt_en: Make PTP TX timestamp HWRM query silent")
changed a netdev_err() to netdev_WARN_ONCE().

netdev_WARN_ONCE() is it generates a kernel WARNING, which is bad, for
the following reasons:

* You do not a kernel warning if the firmware queries are late
* In busy networks, timestamp query failures fairly regularly
* A WARNING message doesn't bring much value, since the code path
is clear.
(This was discussed in-depth in [1])

Transform the netdev_WARN_ONCE() into a netdev_warn_once(), and print a
more well-behaved message, instead of a full WARN().

bnxt_en 0000:67:00.0 eth0: TS query for TX timer failed rc = fffffff5

[1] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/ZbDj%2FFI4EJezcfd1@gmail.com/
Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt_ptp.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt_ptp.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt_ptp.c
index adad188e38b8..cc07660330f5 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt_ptp.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt_ptp.c
@@ -684,7 +684,7 @@ static void bnxt_stamp_tx_skb(struct bnxt *bp, struct sk_buff *skb)
timestamp.hwtstamp = ns_to_ktime(ns);
skb_tstamp_tx(ptp->tx_skb, &timestamp);
} else {
- netdev_WARN_ONCE(bp->dev,
+ netdev_warn_once(bp->dev,
"TS query for TX timer failed rc = %x\n", rc);
}

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