netdev - Re: atl1 64-bit => 32-bit DMA borkage (reproducible, bisected)

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Date:	Mon, 21 Apr 2008 21:08:21 -0500
From:	Jay Cliburn <jacliburn@...lsouth.net>
To:	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
Cc:	Luca Tettamanti <kronos.it@...il.com>,
	Chris Snook <csnook@...hat.com>, Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>, torvalds@...l.org
Subject: Re: atl1 64-bit => 32-bit DMA borkage (reproducible, bisected)

On Mon, 21 Apr 2008 00:55:00 +0400
Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com> wrote:

> Aha, ifconfig down is enough. Here is how reproducer looks like now:
> 
> 	./sync-linux-linus && ssh core2 "sudo /sbin/ifconfig eth0
> down"
> 
> where first script is basically scp(1).
> 
> Also, booting with 1G or 2G of RAM (mem=1024m) makes issue go away.
> 
> printk at dev_close() time shows that NETIF_F_HIGHDMA was not somehow
> enabled.
> 

Alexey, can you please try this (very minimally tested) patch?

diff --git a/drivers/net/atlx/atl1.c b/drivers/net/atlx/atl1.c
index 5586fc6..07fe5c0 100644
--- a/drivers/net/atlx/atl1.c
+++ b/drivers/net/atlx/atl1.c
@@ -1115,9 +1115,6 @@ static void atl1_free_ring_resources(struct atl1_adapter *adapter)
 	struct atl1_rrd_ring *rrd_ring = &adapter->rrd_ring;
 	struct atl1_ring_header *ring_header = &adapter->ring_header;
 
-	atl1_clean_tx_ring(adapter);
-	atl1_clean_rx_ring(adapter);
-
 	kfree(tpd_ring->buffer_info);
 	pci_free_consistent(pdev, ring_header->size, ring_header->desc,
 		ring_header->dma);
@@ -3423,6 +3420,8 @@ static int atl1_set_ringparam(struct net_device *netdev,
 		adapter->rrd_ring = rrd_old;
 		adapter->tpd_ring = tpd_old;
 		adapter->ring_header = rhdr_old;
+		atl1_clean_tx_ring(adapter);
+		atl1_clean_rx_ring(adapter);
 		atl1_free_ring_resources(adapter);
 		adapter->rfd_ring = rfd_new;
 		adapter->rrd_ring = rrd_new;
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