[PATCH iwl-net v2 1/6] ixgbe: fix SWFW semaphore timeout for X550 family

Aleksandr Loktionov
2026-04-08T13:11:58Z

According to FW documentation, the most time-consuming FW operation is
Shadow RAM (SR) dump which takes up to 3.2 seconds. For X550 family
devices the module-update FW command can take over 4.5 s. The default
semaphore loop runs 200 iterations with a 5 ms sleep each, giving a
maximum wait of 1 s -- not "200 ms" as previously stated in error.
This is insufficient for X550 family FW update operations and causes
spurious EBUSY failures.

Extend the SW/FW semaphore timeout from 1 s to 5 s (1000 iterations x
5 ms) for all three X550 variants: ixgbe_mac_X550, ixgbe_mac_X550EM_x,
and ixgbe_mac_x550em_a. All three share the same FW and exhibit the
same worst-case latency. Use three explicit mac.type comparisons rather
than a range check so future MAC additions are not inadvertently
captured.

The timeout variable is set immediately before the loop so the intent
is clear, with an inline comment stating the resulting maximum delay.

Suggested-by: Soumen Karmakar <soumen.karmakar@intel.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Suggested-by: Marta Plantykow <marta.a.plantykow@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Aleksandr Loktionov <aleksandr.loktionov@intel.com>
---
v1 -> v2:
- Squash with 0015 (X550EM extension); fix commit message ("200ms" was
wrong, actual default is 1 s); replace >= / <= range check with three
explicit mac.type == comparisons per Tony Nguyen.

drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_x540.c | 8 ++++++++
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_x540.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_x540.c
index e67e2fe..a3c8f51 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_x540.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_x540.c
@@ -577,6 +577,15 @@ int ixgbe_acquire_swfw_sync_X540(struct ixgbe_hw *hw, u32 mask)

swmask |= swi2c_mask;
fwmask |= swi2c_mask << 2;
+ /* Extend to 5 s (1000 x 5 ms) for X550 family; default is 1 s
+ * (200 x 5 ms). FW SR-dump takes up to 3.2 s; module-update up
+ * to 4.5 s.
+ */
+ if (hw->mac.type == ixgbe_mac_X550 ||
+ hw->mac.type == ixgbe_mac_X550EM_x ||
+ hw->mac.type == ixgbe_mac_x550em_a)
+ timeout = 1000;
+
for (i = 0; i < timeout; i++) {
/* SW NVM semaphore bit is used for access to all
* SW_FW_SYNC bits (not just NVM)
--
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