Dear Manish,
Am 17.03.22 um 10:55 schrieb Manish Chopra:
-----Original Message----- From: Paul Menzel pmenzel@molgen.mpg.de Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2022 1:03 PM
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Am 16.03.22 um 22:46 schrieb Manish Chopra:
commit b7a49f73059f ("bnx2x: Utilize firmware 7.13.21.0") added request_firmware() logic in probe() which caused built-in kernel driver (CONFIG_BNX2X=y) load failure (below), as access to firmware file is not feasible during the probe.
I think it’s important to document, that the firmware was not present in the initrd.
I believe this problem has nothing to do with initrd module/FW but rather a module built in the kernel/vmlinuz (CONFIG_BNX2X=y) itself, A module load from initrd works fine and can access the initrd FW files present in initrd file system even during the probe. For example, when I had CONFIG_BNX2X=m, it loads the module fine from initrd with FW files present in initrd file system. When I had CONFIG_BNX2X=y, which I believe doesn't install/load module in/from initrd but in kernel (vmlinuz) itself, that's where it can't access the firmware file and cause the load failure.
I can only say, that adding the firmware to the initrd worked around the problem on our side with `CONFIG_BNX2X=y`.
"Direct firmware load for bnx2x/bnx2x-e2-7.13.21.0.fw failed with error -2"
I’d say, no line break for log message. Maybe paste the excerpt below:
[ 20.534985] bnx2x 0000:45:00.0: msix capability found [ 20.540342] bnx2x 0000:45:00.0: part number 394D4342-31373735-31314131-473331 [ 20.548605] bnx2x 0000:45:00.0: Direct firmware load for bnx2x/bnx2x-e1h-7.13.21.0.fw failed with error -2 [ 20.558373] bnx2x 0000:45:00.0: Direct firmware load for bnx2x/bnx2x-e1h-7.13.15.0.fw failed with error -2 [ 20.568319] bnx2x: probe of 0000:45:00.0 failed with error -2This patch fixes this issue by -
Removing request_firmware() logic from the probe() such that .ndo_open() handle it as it used to handle it earlier
Given request_firmware() is removed from probe(), so driver has to relax FW version comparisons a bit against the already loaded FW version (by some other PFs of same adapter) to allow different compatible/close FWs with which multiple PFs may run with (in different environments), as the given PF who is in probe flow has no idea now with which firmware file version it is going to initialize the device in ndo_open()
Please be specific and state, that the revision part in the version has to be greater, and that downgrading is not allowed.
I didn't get it, you can't downgrade to any firmware unless you downgrade the kernel/driver, driver with these recent commits/fixes are always supposed to run with this minimum older FW version (7.13.15.0) or a greater FW version (for example now 7.13.21.0). if you want to use the FW version even older to these then you have to downgrade the driver/kernel as well which won't have these commits/logics in them.
I just want you to explicitly describe the added condition in the commit message.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-
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Thank you Outlook for protecting the word. :/
Reported-by: Paul Menzel pmenzel@molgen.mpg.de Tested-by: Paul Menzel pmenzel@molgen.mpg.de Fixes: b7a49f73059f ("bnx2x: Utilize firmware 7.13.21.0") Signed-off-by: Manish Chopra manishc@marvell.com Signed-off-by: Ariel Elior aelior@marvell.com
drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x.h | 2 -- .../net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x_cmn.c | 28 +++++++++++-------- .../net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x_main.c | 15 ++-------- 3 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x.h
b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x.h
index a19dd6797070..2209d99b3404 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x.h +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x.h @@ -2533,6 +2533,4 @@ void bnx2x_register_phc(struct bnx2x *bp); * Meant for implicit re-load flows. */ int bnx2x_vlan_reconfigure_vid(struct bnx2x *bp); -int bnx2x_init_firmware(struct bnx2x *bp); -void bnx2x_release_firmware(struct bnx2x *bp); #endif /* bnx2x.h */ diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x_cmn.c
b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x_cmn.c
index 8d36ebbf08e1..5729a5ab059d 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x_cmn.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x_cmn.c @@ -2364,24 +2364,30 @@ int bnx2x_compare_fw_ver(struct bnx2x *bp,
u32 load_code, bool print_err)
/* is another pf loaded on this engine? */ if (load_code != FW_MSG_CODE_DRV_LOAD_COMMON_CHIP && load_code != FW_MSG_CODE_DRV_LOAD_COMMON) {
/* build my FW version dword */u32 my_fw = (bp->fw_major) + (bp->fw_minor << 8) +(bp->fw_rev << 16) + (bp->fw_eng << 24);
u8 loaded_fw_major, loaded_fw_minor, loaded_fw_rev, loaded_fw_eng;u32 loaded_fw; /* read loaded FW from chip */
u32 loaded_fw = REG_RD(bp, XSEM_REG_PRAM);
loaded_fw = REG_RD(bp, XSEM_REG_PRAM);
DP(BNX2X_MSG_SP, "loaded fw %x, my fw %x\n",loaded_fw, my_fw);
loaded_fw_major = loaded_fw & 0xff;loaded_fw_minor = (loaded_fw >> 8) & 0xff;loaded_fw_rev = (loaded_fw >> 16) & 0xff;loaded_fw_eng = (loaded_fw >> 24) & 0xff;DP(BNX2X_MSG_SP, "loaded fw 0x%x major 0x%x minor 0x%x rev 0x%x eng 0x%x\n",loaded_fw, loaded_fw_major, loaded_fw_minor, loaded_fw_rev, loaded_fw_eng); /* abort nic load if version mismatch */
if (my_fw != loaded_fw) {
if (loaded_fw_major != BCM_5710_FW_MAJOR_VERSION ||loaded_fw_minor != BCM_5710_FW_MINOR_VERSION ||loaded_fw_eng != BCM_5710_FW_ENGINEERING_VERSION ||The engineering version comes after the revision, so I’d assume they can also be relaxed and differ?
We don't change the engineering version at all, it's just for sanity and going to always remain as zero. We use this only for debugging purpose, to differentiate debug FW version vs official FW version.
Please add a comment to make that clean. (Also the existing comment should be updated.)
loaded_fw_rev < BCM_5710_FW_REVISION_VERSION_V15) { if (print_err)Unrelated, this print_err argument added in commit 91ebb929b6f8 (bnx2x: Add support for Multi-Function UNDI) is not so elegant.
BNX2X_ERR("bnx2x with FW %x was already loaded which mismatches my %x FW. Aborting\n",loaded_fw, my_fw);
BNX2X_ERR("loaded FW incompatible. Aborting\n");Please add the versions to the error message to give the user more clues.
I didn't keep it purposely here (to get rid of 100 chars warning) :- ), given the debug print just before this already logs all the version info about the already loaded_fw which can be enabled to get those info. I would prefer a seeparate commit on refining/enabling messages or adding any new informative messages for user about FW versioning related.
Well, the warning does not apply to log messages, so – as it’s present before – and debug logging is cumbersome to enable, please leave it.
Kind regards,
Paul
else
BNX2X_DEV_INFO("bnx2x with FW %x was already loaded which mismatches my %x FW, possibly due to MF UNDI\n",loaded_fw, my_fw);
BNX2X_DEV_INFO("loaded FW incompatible, possibly due to MF UNDI\n");return -EBUSY; }diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x_main.c
b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x_main.c
index eedb48d945ed..c19b072f3a23 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x_main.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x_main.c @@ -12319,15 +12319,6 @@ static int bnx2x_init_bp(struct bnx2x *bp)
bnx2x_read_fwinfo(bp);
if (IS_PF(bp)) {
rc = bnx2x_init_firmware(bp);if (rc) {bnx2x_free_mem_bp(bp);return rc;}}
func = BP_FUNC(bp);
/* need to reset chip if undi was active */
@@ -12340,7 +12331,6 @@ static int bnx2x_init_bp(struct bnx2x *bp)
rc = bnx2x_prev_unload(bp); if (rc) {
bnx2x_release_firmware(bp); bnx2x_free_mem_bp(bp); return rc; }@@ -13409,7 +13399,7 @@ do {
\(u8 *)bp->arr, len); \} while (0)
-int bnx2x_init_firmware(struct bnx2x *bp) +static int bnx2x_init_firmware(struct bnx2x *bp) { const char *fw_file_name, *fw_file_name_v15; struct bnx2x_fw_file_hdr *fw_hdr; @@ -13509,7 +13499,7 @@ int bnx2x_init_firmware(struct bnx2x *bp) return rc; }
-void bnx2x_release_firmware(struct bnx2x *bp) +static void bnx2x_release_firmware(struct bnx2x *bp) { kfree(bp->init_ops_offsets); kfree(bp->init_ops); @@ -14026,7 +14016,6 @@ static int bnx2x_init_one(struct pci_dev *pdev, return 0;
init_one_freemem:
bnx2x_release_firmware(bp); bnx2x_free_mem_bp(bp);
init_one_exit:
Kind regards,
Paul