linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.4 237/312] mlx4: do not call napi

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Message-Id: <20200508123141.092527537@linuxfoundation.org>
Date:   Fri,  8 May 2020 14:33:48 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Erez Shitrit <erezsh@...lanox.com>,
        Eugenia Emantayev <eugenia@...lanox.com>,
        Tariq Toukan <tariqt@...lanox.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: [PATCH 4.4 237/312] mlx4: do not call napi_schedule() without care

From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>

commit 8cf699ec849f4ca1413cea01289bd7d37dbcc626 upstream.

Disable BH around the call to napi_schedule() to avoid following warning

[   52.095499] NOHZ: local_softirq_pending 08
[   52.421291] NOHZ: local_softirq_pending 08
[   52.608313] NOHZ: local_softirq_pending 08

Fixes: 8d59de8f7bb3 ("net/mlx4_en: Process all completions in RX rings after port goes up")
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
Cc: Erez Shitrit <erezsh@...lanox.com>
Cc: Eugenia Emantayev <eugenia@...lanox.com>
Cc: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@...lanox.com>
Acked-by: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@...lanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_netdev.c |    5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_netdev.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_netdev.c
@@ -1724,8 +1724,11 @@ int mlx4_en_start_port(struct net_device
 	/* Process all completions if exist to prevent
 	 * the queues freezing if they are full
 	 */
-	for (i = 0; i < priv->rx_ring_num; i++)
+	for (i = 0; i < priv->rx_ring_num; i++) {
+		local_bh_disable();
 		napi_schedule(&priv->rx_cq[i]->napi);
+		local_bh_enable();
+	}
 
 	netif_tx_start_all_queues(dev);
 	netif_device_attach(dev);