mlx5: count all link events

mlx5 devices were observed generating MLX5_PORT_CHANGE_SUBTYPE_ACTIVE
events without an intervening MLX5_PORT_CHANGE_SUBTYPE_DOWN. This
breaks link flap detection based on Linux carrier state transition
count as netif_carrier_on() does nothing if carrier is already on.
Make sure we count such events.

netif_carrier_event() increments the counters and fires the linkwatch
events. The latter is not necessary for the use case but seems like
the right thing to do.

Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@nvidia.com>

1 files changed, 18 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/net/sched/sch_generic.c b/net/sched/sch_generic.c
index fc8b56bcabf3..e9c0afc8becc 100644
--- a/net/sched/sch_generic.c
+++ b/net/sched/sch_generic.c
@@ -540,6 +540,24 @@ void netif_carrier_off(struct net_device *dev)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(netif_carrier_off);
 
+/**
+ *	netif_carrier_event - report carrier state event
+ *	@dev: network device
+ *
+ * Device has detected a carrier event but the carrier state wasn't changed.
+ * Use in drivers when querying carrier state asynchronously, to avoid missing
+ * events (link flaps) if link recovers before it's queried.
+ */
+void netif_carrier_event(struct net_device *dev)
+{
+	if (dev->reg_state == NETREG_UNINITIALIZED)
+		return;
+	atomic_inc(&dev->carrier_up_count);
+	atomic_inc(&dev->carrier_down_count);
+	linkwatch_fire_event(dev);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(netif_carrier_event);
+
 /* "NOOP" scheduler: the best scheduler, recommended for all interfaces
    under all circumstances. It is difficult to invent anything faster or
    cheaper.