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[next,S28,10/15] i40e: expand comment

Message ID 1452897202-15204-11-git-send-email-joshua.a.hay@intel.com
State Accepted
Delegated to: Jeff Kirsher
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Commit Message

Joshua Hay Jan. 15, 2016, 10:33 p.m. UTC
From: Mitch Williams <mitch.a.williams@intel.com>

Explain why we cannot remove this code, even though it works differently
than any of our other interrupt cause handling code.

Signed-off-by: Mitch Williams <mitch.a.williams@intel.com>
Change-ID: Ie66203bd037a466066036611c31d44f759ec5176
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Testing Hints: Comment only. No code change.

 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_virtchnl_pf.c | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Comments

Bowers, AndrewX Jan. 20, 2016, 11:04 p.m. UTC | #1
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Intel-wired-lan [mailto:intel-wired-lan-bounces@lists.osuosl.org] On
> Behalf Of Joshua Hay
> Sent: Friday, January 15, 2016 2:33 PM
> To: intel-wired-lan@lists.osuosl.org
> Subject: [Intel-wired-lan] [next PATCH S28 10/15] i40e: expand comment
> 
> From: Mitch Williams <mitch.a.williams@intel.com>
> 
> Explain why we cannot remove this code, even though it works differently
> than any of our other interrupt cause handling code.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mitch Williams <mitch.a.williams@intel.com>
> Change-ID: Ie66203bd037a466066036611c31d44f759ec5176
> ---
> Testing Hints: Comment only. No code change.
> 
>  drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_virtchnl_pf.c | 6 +++++-
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Tested-by: Andrew Bowers <andrewx.bowers@intel.com>
Patch code changes correctly applied
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diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_virtchnl_pf.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_virtchnl_pf.c
index 597f209..5dcd198 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_virtchnl_pf.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_virtchnl_pf.c
@@ -2037,7 +2037,11 @@  int i40e_vc_process_vflr_event(struct i40e_pf *pf)
 	if (!test_bit(__I40E_VFLR_EVENT_PENDING, &pf->state))
 		return 0;
 
-	/* re-enable vflr interrupt cause */
+	/* Re-enable the VFLR interrupt cause here, before looking for which
+	 * VF got reset. Otherwise, if another VF gets a reset while the
+	 * first one is being processed, that interrupt will be lost, and
+	 * that VF will be stuck in reset forever.
+	 */
 	reg = rd32(hw, I40E_PFINT_ICR0_ENA);
 	reg |= I40E_PFINT_ICR0_ENA_VFLR_MASK;
 	wr32(hw, I40E_PFINT_ICR0_ENA, reg);