Patch "net/mlx5: Wait for FW readiness before initializing command interface" has been added to the 4.11-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

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

    net/mlx5: Wait for FW readiness before initializing command interface

to the 4.11-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:
     net-mlx5-wait-for-fw-readiness-before-initializing-command-interface.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.11 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 Thu Jun 29 18:58:00 CEST 2017
From: Eli Cohen <eli@mellanox.com>
Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2017 11:33:16 -0500
Subject: net/mlx5: Wait for FW readiness before initializing command interface

From: Eli Cohen <eli@mellanox.com>


[ Upstream commit 6c780a0267b8a1075f40b39851132eeaefefcff5 ]

Before attempting to initialize the command interface we must wait till
the fw_initializing bit is clear.

If we fail to meet this condition the hardware will drop our
configuration, specifically the descriptors page address.  This scenario
can happen when the firmware is still executing an FLR flow and did not
finish yet so the driver needs to wait for that to finish.

Fixes: e3297246c2c8 ('net/mlx5_core: Wait for FW readiness on startup')
Signed-off-by: Eli Cohen <eli@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/main.c |   14 ++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/main.c
@@ -175,8 +175,9 @@ static struct mlx5_profile profile[] = {
 	},
 };
 
-#define FW_INIT_TIMEOUT_MILI	2000
-#define FW_INIT_WAIT_MS		2
+#define FW_INIT_TIMEOUT_MILI		2000
+#define FW_INIT_WAIT_MS			2
+#define FW_PRE_INIT_TIMEOUT_MILI	10000
 
 static int wait_fw_init(struct mlx5_core_dev *dev, u32 max_wait_mili)
 {
@@ -1021,6 +1022,15 @@ static int mlx5_load_one(struct mlx5_cor
 	 */
 	dev->state = MLX5_DEVICE_STATE_UP;
 
+	/* wait for firmware to accept initialization segments configurations
+	 */
+	err = wait_fw_init(dev, FW_PRE_INIT_TIMEOUT_MILI);
+	if (err) {
+		dev_err(&dev->pdev->dev, "Firmware over %d MS in pre-initializing state, aborting\n",
+			FW_PRE_INIT_TIMEOUT_MILI);
+		goto out;
+	}
+
 	err = mlx5_cmd_init(dev);
 	if (err) {
 		dev_err(&pdev->dev, "Failed initializing command interface, aborting\n");


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from eli@mellanox.com are

queue-4.11/net-mlx5-wait-for-fw-readiness-before-initializing-command-interface.patch