linux-kernel - [PATCH net-next v3 0/2] Allow disabling pause frames on panic

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Message-Id: <20251107002510.1678369-1-florian.fainelli@broadcom.com>
Date: Thu,  6 Nov 2025 16:25:08 -0800
From: Florian Fainelli <florian.fainelli@...adcom.com>
To: netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Florian Fainelli <florian.fainelli@...adcom.com>,
	Doug Berger <opendmb@...il.com>,
	Broadcom internal kernel review list <bcm-kernel-feedback-list@...adcom.com>,
	Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@...n.ch>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
	Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
	Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>,
	Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@...ichev.me>,
	Antoine Tenart <atenart@...nel.org>,
	Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@...gle.com>,
	Yajun Deng <yajun.deng@...ux.dev>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org (open list)
Subject: [PATCH net-next v3 0/2] Allow disabling pause frames on panic

This patch set allows disabling pause frame generation upon encountering
a kernel panic. This has proven to be helpful in lab environments where
devices are still being worked on, will panic for various reasons, and
will occasionally take down the entire Ethernet switch they are attached
to.

Changes in v3:

- early feedback as to whether we can disable pause on panic
- correct documentation
- simplify network device list traversal
- only need to disable pause frame generation (TX)

Changes in v2:

- introduce a dedicated callback that runs in panic context

Florian Fainelli (2):
  net: ethernet: Allow disabling pause on panic
  net: bcmgenet: Add support for set_pauseparam_panic

 Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-net     | 16 ++++
 .../net/ethernet/broadcom/genet/bcmgenet.c    |  8 ++
 .../net/ethernet/broadcom/genet/bcmgenet.h    |  1 +
 drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/genet/bcmmii.c  | 10 +++
 include/linux/ethtool.h                       |  3 +
 include/linux/netdevice.h                     |  1 +
 net/core/net-sysfs.c                          | 39 +++++++++
 net/ethernet/Makefile                         |  3 +-
 net/ethernet/pause_panic.c                    | 79 +++++++++++++++++++
 9 files changed, 159 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 create mode 100644 net/ethernet/pause_panic.c

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