i40e: expand comment
Explain why we cannot remove this code, even though it works differently
than any of our other interrupt cause handling code.
Change-ID: Ie66203bd037a466066036611c31d44f759ec5176
Signed-off-by: Mitch Williams <mitch.a.williams@intel.com>
Tested-by: Andrew Bowers <andrewx.bowers@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_virtchnl_pf.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_virtchnl_pf.c
index 597f209..5dcd198 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_virtchnl_pf.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_virtchnl_pf.c
@@ -2037,7 +2037,11 @@
if (!test_bit(__I40E_VFLR_EVENT_PENDING, &pf->state))
return 0;
- /* re-enable vflr interrupt cause */
+ /* Re-enable the VFLR interrupt cause here, before looking for which
+ * VF got reset. Otherwise, if another VF gets a reset while the
+ * first one is being processed, that interrupt will be lost, and
+ * that VF will be stuck in reset forever.
+ */
reg = rd32(hw, I40E_PFINT_ICR0_ENA);
reg |= I40E_PFINT_ICR0_ENA_VFLR_MASK;
wr32(hw, I40E_PFINT_ICR0_ENA, reg);