[Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH] igb: Report speed and duplex as unknown when device is runtime suspended

Kirsher, Jeffrey T jeffrey.t.kirsher at intel.com
Mon May 4 20:28:03 UTC 2020


> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
> Sent: Monday, May 4, 2020 11:21
> To: kai.heng.feng at canonical.com
> Cc: Kirsher, Jeffrey T <jeffrey.t.kirsher at intel.com>; intel-wired-
> lan at lists.osuosl.org; netdev at vger.kernel.org; linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] igb: Report speed and duplex as unknown when device is
> runtime suspended
> 
> From: Kai-Heng Feng <kai.heng.feng at canonical.com>
> Date: Tue,  5 May 2020 01:32:18 +0800
> 
> > igb device gets runtime suspended when there's no link partner. We
> > can't get correct speed under that state:
> > $ cat /sys/class/net/enp3s0/speed
> > 1000
> >
> > In addition to that, an error can also be spotted in dmesg:
> > [  385.991957] igb 0000:03:00.0 enp3s0: PCIe link lost
> >
> > Since device can only be runtime suspended when there's no link
> > partner, we can directly report the speed and duplex as unknown.
> >
> > The more generic approach will be wrap get_link_ksettings() with
> > begin() and complete() callbacks. However, for this particular issue,
> > begin() calls igb_runtime_resume() , which tries to rtnl_lock() while
> > the lock is already hold by upper ethtool layer.
> >
> > So let's take this approach until the igb_runtime_resume() no longer
> > needs to hold rtnl_lock.
> >
> > Suggested-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck at gmail.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Kai-Heng Feng <kai.heng.feng at canonical.com>
> 
> I'm assuming I will get this from upstream via Jeff K.
[Kirsher, Jeffrey T] 

Yep, I will be picking this up once Alex's last questions/concerns are addressed.


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