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Message-Id: <20240125134104.2045573-1-leitao@debian.org>
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2024 05:41:03 -0800
From: Breno Leitao <leitao@...ian.org>
To: pavan.chebbi@...adcom.com,
Michael Chan <michael.chan@...adcom.com>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
Richard Cochran <richardcochran@...il.com>
Cc: gospo@...adcom.com,
netdev@...r.kernel.org (open list:BROADCOM BNXT_EN 50 GIGABIT ETHERNET DRIVER),
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org (open list)
Subject: [PATCH net] bnxt_en: Make PTP timestamp HWRM more silent
commit 056bce63c469 ("bnxt_en: Make PTP TX timestamp HWRM query silent")
changed a netdev_err() to netdev_WARN_ONCE().
netdev_WARN_ONCE() is it generates a kernel WARNING, which is bad, for
the following reasons:
* You do not a kernel warning if the firmware queries are late
* In busy networks, timestamp query failures fairly regularly
* A WARNING message doesn't bring much value, since the code path
is clear.
(This was discussed in-depth in [1])
Transform the netdev_WARN_ONCE() into a netdev_warn_once(), and print a
more well-behaved message, instead of a full WARN().
bnxt_en 0000:67:00.0 eth0: TS query for TX timer failed rc = fffffff5
[1] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/ZbDj%2FFI4EJezcfd1@gmail.com/
Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@...ian.org>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt_ptp.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt_ptp.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt_ptp.c
index adad188e38b8..cc07660330f5 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt_ptp.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt_ptp.c
@@ -684,7 +684,7 @@ static void bnxt_stamp_tx_skb(struct bnxt *bp, struct sk_buff *skb)
timestamp.hwtstamp = ns_to_ktime(ns);
skb_tstamp_tx(ptp->tx_skb, ×tamp);
} else {
- netdev_WARN_ONCE(bp->dev,
+ netdev_warn_once(bp->dev,
"TS query for TX timer failed rc = %x\n", rc);
}
--
2.34.1
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