Patch "net/mlx5: Tolerate irq_set_affinity_hint() failures" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

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

net/mlx5: Tolerate irq_set_affinity_hint() failures

to the 4.9-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-tolerate-irq_set_affinity_hint-failures.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Tariq Toukan <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 18 May 2017 13:34:43 +0300
Subject: net/mlx5: Tolerate irq_set_affinity_hint() failures

From: Tariq Toukan <[email protected]>

[ Upstream commit b665d98edc9ab295169be2fc5bb4e89a46de0a1a ]

Add tolerance to failures of irq_set_affinity_hint(). Its role is to give hints that optimizes performance, and should not block the driver load.

In non-SMP systems, functionality is not available as there is a single core, and all these calls definitely fail. Hence, do not call the function and avoid the warning prints.

---
 drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/main.c |   15 ++++-----------
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

@@ -548,7 +548,6 @@ static int mlx5_irq_set_affinity_hint(st
 	struct mlx5_priv *priv  = &mdev->priv;
 	struct msix_entry *msix = priv->msix_arr;
 	int irq                 = msix[i + MLX5_EQ_VEC_COMP_BASE].vector;
-	int err;
 
 	if (!zalloc_cpumask_var(&priv->irq_info[i].mask, GFP_KERNEL)) {
 		mlx5_core_warn(mdev, "zalloc_cpumask_var failed");

@@ -558,18 +557,12 @@ static int mlx5_irq_set_affinity_hint(st
 	cpumask_set_cpu(cpumask_local_spread(i, priv->numa_node),
 			priv->irq_info[i].mask);
 
-	err = irq_set_affinity_hint(irq, priv->irq_info[i].mask);
-	if (err) {
-		mlx5_core_warn(mdev, "irq_set_affinity_hint failed,irq 0x%.4x",
-			       irq);
-		goto err_clear_mask;
-	}
+#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
+	if (irq_set_affinity_hint(irq, priv->irq_info[i].mask))
+		mlx5_core_warn(mdev, "irq_set_affinity_hint failed, irq 0x%.4x", irq);
+#endif
 
 	return 0;
-
-err_clear_mask:
-	free_cpumask_var(priv->irq_info[i].mask);
-	return err;
 }
 
 static void mlx5_irq_clear_affinity_hint(struct mlx5_core_dev *mdev, int i)

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.9/net-mlx4_en-change-default-qos-settings.patch queue-4.9/net-mlx4_en-avoid-adding-steering-rules-with-invalid-ring.patch queue-4.9/net-mlx4-fix-the-check-in-attaching-steering-rules.patch queue-4.9/net-mlx5-tolerate-irq_set_affinity_hint-failures.patch queue-4.9/net-mlx4-check-if-granular-qos-per-vf-has-been-enabled-before-updating-qp-qos_vport.patch