From: Thomas Falcon <tlfal...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2017 23:50:04 -0500
> This series of small patches is meant to resolve a number of > bugs, mostly occurring during an ibmvnic driver reset when > recovering from a logical partition migration (LPM). > > The first patch ensures that RX buffer pools are properly > activated following an adapter reset by setting the proper > flag in the pool data structure. > > The second patch uses netif_tx_disable to stop TX queues when > closing the device during a reset. > > Third, fixup a typo that resulted in partial sanitization of > TX/RX descriptor queues following a device reset. > > Fourth, remove an ambiguous conditional check that was resulting > in a kernel panic as null RX/TX completion descriptors were being > processed during napi polling while the device is closing. > > Finally, fix a condition where the napi polling routine exits > before it has completed its work budget without notifying the > upper network layers. This omission could result in the > napi_disable function sleeping indefinitely under certain conditions. > > v2: Attempt to provide a proper cover letter Series applied, thank you.
