From 2a4f56fbcc473d8faeb29b73082df39efbe5893c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jianbo Liu Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2024 10:15:05 +0200 Subject: net/mlx5e: Keep netdev when leave switchdev for devlink set legacy only In the cited commit, when changing from switchdev to legacy mode, uplink representor's netdev is kept, and its profile is replaced with nic profile, so netdev is detached from old profile, then attach to new profile. During profile change, the hardware resources allocated by the old profile will be cleaned up. However, the cleanup is relying on the related kernel modules. And they may need to flush themselves first, which is triggered by netdev events, for example, NETDEV_UNREGISTER. However, netdev is kept, or netdev_register is called after the cleanup, which may cause troubles because the resources are still referred by kernel modules. The same process applies to all the caes when uplink is leaving switchdev mode, including devlink eswitch mode set legacy, driver unload and devlink reload. For the first one, it can be blocked and returns failure to users, whenever possible. But it's hard for the others. Besides, the attachment to nic profile is unnecessary as the netdev will be unregistered anyway for such cases. So in this patch, the original behavior is kept only for devlink eswitch set mode legacy. For the others, moves netdev unregistration before the profile change. Fixes: 7a9fb35e8c3a ("net/mlx5e: Do not reload ethernet ports when changing eswitch mode") Signed-off-by: Jianbo Liu Signed-off-by: Tariq Toukan Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20241220081505.1286093-5-tariqt@nvidia.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski --- include/linux/mlx5/driver.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'include') diff --git a/include/linux/mlx5/driver.h b/include/linux/mlx5/driver.h index fc7e6153b73d..8f5991168ccd 100644 --- a/include/linux/mlx5/driver.h +++ b/include/linux/mlx5/driver.h @@ -524,6 +524,7 @@ enum { * creation/deletion on drivers rescan. Unset during device attach. */ MLX5_PRIV_FLAGS_DETACH = 1 << 2, + MLX5_PRIV_FLAGS_SWITCH_LEGACY = 1 << 3, }; struct mlx5_adev { -- cgit v1.2.3