3.18-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Benjamin Poirier <bpoir...@suse.com>


[ Upstream commit bd4ce941c8d5b862b2f83364be5dbe8fc8ab48f8 ]

mlx4 may schedule napi from a workqueue. Afterwards, softirqs are not run
in a deterministic time frame and the following message may be logged:
NOHZ: local_softirq_pending 08

The problem is the same as what was described in commit ec13ee80145c
("virtio_net: invoke softirqs after __napi_schedule") and this patch
applies the same fix to mlx4.

Fixes: 07841f9d94c1 ("net/mlx4_en: Schedule napi when RX buffers allocation 
fails")
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.duma...@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Poirier <bpoir...@suse.com>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eduma...@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Tariq Toukan <tar...@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <da...@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_rx.c |    5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_rx.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_rx.c
@@ -501,8 +501,11 @@ void mlx4_en_recover_from_oom(struct mlx
                return;
 
        for (ring = 0; ring < priv->rx_ring_num; ring++) {
-               if (mlx4_en_is_ring_empty(priv->rx_ring[ring]))
+               if (mlx4_en_is_ring_empty(priv->rx_ring[ring])) {
+                       local_bh_disable();
                        napi_reschedule(&priv->rx_cq[ring]->napi);
+                       local_bh_enable();
+               }
        }
 }
 


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