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Alejandro Lucero a49282eca8 sfc: disable softirqs for ptp TX
[ Upstream commit 67c3b611d92fc238c43734878bc3e232ab570c79 ]

Sending a PTP packet can imply to use the normal TX driver datapath but
invoked from the driver's ptp worker. The kernel generic TX code
disables softirqs and preemption before calling specific driver TX code,
but the ptp worker does not. Although current ptp driver functionality
does not require it, there are several reasons for doing so:

   1) The invoked code is always executed with softirqs disabled for non
      PTP packets.
   2) Better if a ptp packet transmission is not interrupted by softirq
      handling which could lead to high latencies.
   3) netdev_xmit_more used by the TX code requires preemption to be
      disabled.

Indeed a solution for dealing with kernel preemption state based on static
kernel configuration is not possible since the introduction of dynamic
preemption level configuration at boot time using the static calls
functionality.

Fixes: f79c957a0b ("drivers: net: sfc: use netdev_xmit_more helper")
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Lucero <alejandro.lucero-palau@amd.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220726064504.49613-1-alejandro.lucero-palau@amd.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
2022-08-03 11:59:41 +02:00
arch s390/archrandom: prevent CPACF trng invocations in interrupt context 2022-08-03 11:59:37 +02:00
block block: fix bio_clone_blkg_association() to associate with proper blkcg_gq 2022-06-14 18:11:50 +02:00
certs certs/blacklist_hashes.c: fix const confusion in certs blacklist 2022-06-22 14:11:22 +02:00
crypto crypto: drbg - make reseeding from get_random_bytes() synchronous 2022-06-22 14:11:18 +02:00
Documentation Documentation: fix sctp_wmem in ip-sysctl.rst 2022-08-03 11:59:40 +02:00
drivers sfc: disable softirqs for ptp TX 2022-08-03 11:59:41 +02:00
fs ntfs: fix use-after-free in ntfs_ucsncmp() 2022-08-03 11:59:37 +02:00
include ipv6/addrconf: fix a null-ptr-deref bug for ip6_ptr 2022-08-03 11:59:39 +02:00
init random: handle latent entropy and command line from random_init() 2022-06-22 14:11:17 +02:00
ipc ipc/mqueue: use get_tree_nodev() in mqueue_get_tree() 2022-06-14 18:11:41 +02:00
kernel bpf: Make sure mac_header was set before using it 2022-07-29 17:14:16 +02:00
lib locking/refcount: Consolidate implementations of refcount_t 2022-07-29 17:14:17 +02:00
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mm mm/mempolicy: fix uninit-value in mpol_rebind_policy() 2022-07-29 17:14:16 +02:00
net netfilter: nf_queue: do not allow packet truncation below transport header offset 2022-08-03 11:59:41 +02:00
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scripts modpost: fix section mismatch check for exported init/exit sections 2022-06-29 08:58:49 +02:00
security ima: remove the IMA_TEMPLATE Kconfig option 2022-07-29 17:14:16 +02:00
sound ALSA: memalloc: Align buffer allocations in page size 2022-07-29 17:14:18 +02:00
tools perf symbol: Correct address for bss symbols 2022-08-03 11:59:41 +02:00
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