netdev - Re: Gianfar driver failing on MPC8641D based board

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Message-ID: <4B884757.2070205@windriver.com>
Date:	Fri, 26 Feb 2010 17:12:39 -0500
From:	Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>
To:	avorontsov@...mvista.com
CC:	Martyn Welch <martyn.welch@...com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linuxppc-dev list <linuxppc-dev@...abs.org>,
	Sandeep Gopalpet <Sandeep.Kumar@...escale.com>,
	davem@...emloft.net
Subject: Re: Gianfar driver failing on MPC8641D based board

On 10-02-26 04:38 PM, Anton Vorontsov wrote:

> OK, I think I found what's happening in gianfar.
> 
> Some background...
> 
> start_xmit() prepares new skb for transmitting, generally it does
> three things:
> 
> 1. sets up all BDs (marks them ready to send), except the first one.
> 2. stores skb into tx_queue->tx_skbuff so that clean_tx_ring()
>     would cleanup it later.
> 3. sets up the first BD, i.e. marks it ready.
> 
> Here is what clean_tx_ring() does:
> 
> 1. reads skbs from tx_queue->tx_skbuff
> 2. Checks if the *last* BD is ready. If it's still ready [to send]
>     then it it isn't transmitted, so clean_tx_ring() returns.
>     Otherwise it actually cleanups BDs. All is OK.
> 
> Now, if there is just one BD, code flow:
> 
> - start_xmit(): stores skb into tx_skbuff. Note that the first BD
>    (which is also the last one) isn't marked as ready, yet.
> - clean_tx_ring(): sees that skb is not null, *and* its lstatus
>    says that it is NOT ready (like if BD was sent), so it cleans
>    it up (bad!)
> - start_xmit(): marks BD as ready [to send], but it's too late.
> 
> We can fix this simply by reordering lstatus/tx_skbuff writes.
> 
> It works flawlessly on my p2020, please try it.

I've skipped right to the test part (I'll think about the description
more later) and it passed 5 out of 5 boot tests on NFSroot sbc8641d.
Looks like you've got a solution.

Paul.

> 
> Thanks!
> 
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/gianfar.c b/drivers/net/gianfar.c
> index 8bd3c9f..cccb409 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/gianfar.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/gianfar.c
> @@ -2021,7 +2021,6 @@ static int gfar_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
>   	}
> 
>   	/* setup the TxBD length and buffer pointer for the first BD */
> -	tx_queue->tx_skbuff[tx_queue->skb_curtx] = skb;
>   	txbdp_start->bufPtr = dma_map_single(&priv->ofdev->dev, skb->data,
>   			skb_headlen(skb), DMA_TO_DEVICE);
> 
> @@ -2053,6 +2052,10 @@ static int gfar_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
> 
>   	txbdp_start->lstatus = lstatus;
> 
> +	eieio(); /* force lstatus write before tx_skbuff */
> +
> +	tx_queue->tx_skbuff[tx_queue->skb_curtx] = skb;
> +
>   	/* Update the current skb pointer to the next entry we will use
>   	 * (wrapping if necessary) */
>   	tx_queue->skb_curtx = (tx_queue->skb_curtx + 1)&

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