[Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH v2] intel-ethernet: warn when fatal read failure happens

Feng Tang feng.tang at intel.com
Wed Feb 13 02:41:54 UTC 2019


Failed in read the HW register is very serious for igb/igc driver,
as its hw_addr will be set to NULL and cause the adapter be seen as
"REMOVED".

We saw the error only a few times in the MTBF test for suspend/resume,
but can hardly get any useful info to debug.

Adding WARN() so that we can get the necessary information about
where and how it happens, and use it for root causing and fixing
this "PCIe link lost issue"

This affects igb, igc.

Signed-off-by: Feng Tang <feng.tang at intel.com>
Tested-by: Aaron Brown <aaron.f.brown at intel.com>
---
Changelog:

  v2: add "\n" to the warning message as suggested by Sasha Neftin

 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c | 1 +
 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igc/igc_main.c | 1 +
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c
index 7137e7f..e3177e5 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c
@@ -753,6 +753,7 @@ u32 igb_rd32(struct e1000_hw *hw, u32 reg)
 		struct net_device *netdev = igb->netdev;
 		hw->hw_addr = NULL;
 		netdev_err(netdev, "PCIe link lost\n");
+		WARN(1, "igb: Failed to read reg 0x%x!\n", reg);
 	}
 
 	return value;
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igc/igc_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igc/igc_main.c
index f201830..f0af812 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igc/igc_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igc/igc_main.c
@@ -3496,6 +3496,7 @@ u32 igc_rd32(struct igc_hw *hw, u32 reg)
 		hw->hw_addr = NULL;
 		netif_device_detach(netdev);
 		netdev_err(netdev, "PCIe link lost, device now detached\n");
+		WARN(1, "igc: Failed to read reg 0x%x!\n", reg);
 	}
 
 	return value;
-- 
2.7.4



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