Some old PF drivers don't let VFs allocate counters, in that case, use
the sink counter so the VF can load and operate properly.
Fixes: 6de5f7f6a1fa ('net/mlx4_core: Allocate default counter per port')
Reported-by: Sebastian Ott <sebott@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Eran Ben Elisha <eranbe@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
} else if (err == -ENOENT) {
err = 0;
continue;
+ } else if (mlx4_is_slave(dev) && err == -EINVAL) {
+ priv->def_counter[port] = MLX4_SINK_COUNTER_INDEX(dev);
+ mlx4_warn(dev, "can't allocate counter from old PF driver, using index %d\n",
+ MLX4_SINK_COUNTER_INDEX(dev));
+ err = 0;
} else {
mlx4_err(dev, "%s: failed to allocate default counter port %d err %d\n",
__func__, port + 1, err);