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authorTomáš Pilař <tpilar@solarflare.com>2017-01-25 13:48:17 +0000
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2017-01-25 14:44:00 -0500
commit6eacfb54ea1825a3f1062bbfd71669b594168646 (patch)
tree552808f7ae6adf6924cb29f4aa8d9aa5fc89e83d /drivers
parent761095c238f7b234bd63c164416ac42792a8eeb1 (diff)
downloadlinux-6eacfb54ea1825a3f1062bbfd71669b594168646.tar.bz2
sfc: reduce severity of PIO buffer alloc failures
PIO buffer allocation can fail for two valid reasons: - we've run out of them (results in -ENOSPC) - the NIC configuration doesn't support them (results in -EPERM) Since both these failures are expected netif_err is excessive. Signed-off-by: Bert Kenward <bkenward@solarflare.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/ef10.c18
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/ef10.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/ef10.c
index dccbbd323616..7c53da28ad64 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/ef10.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/ef10.c
@@ -1170,7 +1170,13 @@ static int efx_ef10_dimension_resources(struct efx_nic *efx)
nic_data->piobuf_size / efx_piobuf_size);
rc = efx_ef10_alloc_piobufs(efx, n_piobufs);
- if (rc)
+ if (rc == -ENOSPC)
+ netif_dbg(efx, probe, efx->net_dev,
+ "out of PIO buffers; cannot allocate more\n");
+ else if (rc == -EPERM)
+ netif_dbg(efx, probe, efx->net_dev,
+ "not permitted to allocate PIO buffers\n");
+ else if (rc)
netif_err(efx, probe, efx->net_dev,
"failed to allocate PIO buffers (%d)\n", rc);
else
@@ -1317,8 +1323,14 @@ static int efx_ef10_init_nic(struct efx_nic *efx)
efx_ef10_free_piobufs(efx);
}
- /* Log an error on failure, but this is non-fatal */
- if (rc)
+ /* Log an error on failure, but this is non-fatal.
+ * Permission errors are less important - we've presumably
+ * had the PIO buffer licence removed.
+ */
+ if (rc == -EPERM)
+ netif_dbg(efx, drv, efx->net_dev,
+ "not permitted to restore PIO buffers\n");
+ else if (rc)
netif_err(efx, drv, efx->net_dev,
"failed to restore PIO buffers (%d)\n", rc);
nic_data->must_restore_piobufs = false;