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

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 <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Eli Cohen <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2017 11:33:16 -0500
Subject: net/mlx5: Wait for FW readiness before initializing command interface

From: Eli Cohen <[email protected]>

[ 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.

---
 drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/main.c |   14 ++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

@@ -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 [email protected] are

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