[dpdk-stable] patch 'net/liquidio: fix link state fetching during start' has been queued to stable release 18.02.2

[luca.boccassi at gmail.com]

Hi,

FYI, your patch has been queued to stable release 18.02.2

Note it hasn't been pushed to http://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable yet.
It will be pushed if I get no objections before 05/25/18. So please
shout if anyone has objections.

Thanks.

Luca Boccassi

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>From 0e5aa4bdc959d12b773db73e90f83b56193ac15c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Chuhong Yao <ych at panath.cn>
Date: Tue, 22 May 2018 22:33:29 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] net/liquidio: fix link state fetching during start

[ upstream commit fe242d514d1ae8e7c73b6f3a14bf2578ebe55091 ]

Clear link state information during device start for fetching new state
before function completion.

Fixes: 605164c8e79d ("net/liquidio: add API to validate VF MTU")

Signed-off-by: Chuhong Yao <ych at panath.cn>
Acked-by: Shijith Thotton <shijith.thotton at caviumnetworks.com>
---
 drivers/net/liquidio/lio_ethdev.c | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/liquidio/lio_ethdev.c b/drivers/net/liquidio/lio_ethdev.c
index eebe0b798..b0d201230 100644
--- a/drivers/net/liquidio/lio_ethdev.c
+++ b/drivers/net/liquidio/lio_ethdev.c
@@ -1441,6 +1441,11 @@ lio_dev_start(struct rte_eth_dev *eth_dev)
 	/* Configure RSS if device configured with multiple RX queues. */
 	lio_dev_mq_rx_configure(eth_dev);
 
+	/* Before update the link info,
+	 * must set linfo.link.link_status64 to 0.
+	 */
+	lio_dev->linfo.link.link_status64 = 0;
+
 	/* start polling for lsc */
 	ret = rte_eal_alarm_set(LIO_LSC_TIMEOUT,
 				lio_sync_link_state_check,
-- 
2.14.2