i40e: expand comment

Orabug: 22342532

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>
(cherry picked from commit 0d79032781caf8573d141259bd5008516439d634)
Signed-off-by: Brian Maly <brian.maly@oracle.com>

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_virtchnl_pf.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_virtchnl_pf.c
index 597f2092b59738cdf49f34a90cbd026fadf9d07e..5dcd19869a419ddb355bc6d65db69fe2ae59db64 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_virtchnl_pf.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_virtchnl_pf.c
@@ -2037,7 +2037,11 @@ int i40e_vc_process_vflr_event(struct i40e_pf *pf)
        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);