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Message-ID: <20130822142652.GA6268@weiyang.vnet.ibm.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2013 22:26:52 +0800
From: Wei Yang <weiyang@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>
Cc: "e1000-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net"
<e1000-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net>,
netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] e1000e: Calculate the desc_len based on adapter type
Jeff,
Thanks for letting me know this.
Setting MTU is not tested, maybe this patch introduce some problem in this
case. Sorry for breaking your driver :-(
On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 03:57:24AM -0700, Jeff Kirsher wrote:
>Validation ran into issues with this patch and because we could not apply patch
>4 in this series without patch 3, I have had to drop patch 3 & 4 from my
>queue.
>
>Here is what validation had to say about this patch...
>
>Aaron Brown wrote:
>This patch introduces a call trace when the interface is up and then the mtu is
>set over 1500, or if the mtu is set above 1500 when the interface is down,
>the call trace appears when the interface is brought up. The trace is captured
>to demsg and /var/log/messages:
>---------------------------------------------------
>17:14:52 u1307 kernel: Call Trace:
>17:14:52 u1307 kernel: [<ffffffff813ffaeb>] dump_stack+0x19/0x1e
>17:14:52 u1307 kernel: [<ffffffff8104ae80>] __might_sleep+0xe2/0xe4
>17:14:52 u1307 kernel: [<ffffffff81400e63>] down_read+0x1f/0x31
>17:14:52 u1307 kernel: [<ffffffff8102c1b7>] exit_mm+0x3a/0x164
>17:14:52 u1307 kernel: [<ffffffff8102da09>] do_exit+0x1ef/0x2f7
>17:14:52 u1307 kernel: [<ffffffff81403bce>] oops_end+0x8f/0x94
>17:14:52 u1307 kernel: [<ffffffff81020ca5>] no_context+0x1a4/0x1b3
>17:14:52 u1307 kernel: [<ffffffff81020e6c>] __bad_area_nosemaphore+0x1b8/0x1d8
>17:14:52 u1307 kernel: [<ffffffff81020e9a>] bad_area_nosemaphore+0xe/0x10
>17:14:52 u1307 kernel: [<ffffffff81405a69>] __do_page_fault+0x44f/0x48e
>17:14:52 u1307 kernel: [<ffffffff81004494>] ? print_context_stack+0xa2/0xbe
>17:14:52 u1307 kernel: [<ffffffff81003488>] ? dump_trace+0x282/0x2aa
>17:14:52 u1307 kernel: [<ffffffff81402bf0>] ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x1d/
>0x3a
>17:14:52 u1307 kernel: [<ffffffff81405ab1>] do_page_fault+0x9/0xb
>17:14:52 u1307 kernel: [<ffffffff814031e2>] page_fault+0x22/0x30
>17:14:52 u1307 kernel: [<ffffffffa00238ef>] ? e1000_alloc_rx_buffers_ps+0x1d9/
>0x421 [e1000e]
>17:14:52 u1307 kernel: [<ffffffffa00238a3>] ? e1000_alloc_rx_buffers_ps+0x18d/
>0x421 [e1000e]
>17:14:52 u1307 kernel: [<ffffffffa0022bd6>] e1000_configure+0xe7/0xf0 [e1000e]
>17:14:52 u1307 kernel: [<ffffffffa0022bee>] e1000e_up+0xf/0xe7 [e1000e]
>17:14:52 u1307 kernel: [<ffffffffa00282da>] e1000_change_mtu+0x142/0x162
>[e1000e]
>17:14:52 u1307 kernel: [<ffffffff8135a98b>] dev_set_mtu+0x3f/0x5e
>17:14:52 u1307 kernel: [<ffffffff81369280>] dev_ifsioc+0xec/0x329
>17:14:52 u1307 kernel: [<ffffffff81369a24>] dev_ioctl+0x309/0x3bd
>17:14:52 u1307 kernel: [<ffffffff81348035>] sock_ioctl+0x21e/0x22b
>17:14:52 u1307 kernel: [<ffffffff810ce1b4>] do_vfs_ioctl+0x28e/0x2aa
>17:14:52 u1307 kernel: [<ffffffff810ce217>] SyS_ioctl+0x47/0x69
>17:14:52 u1307 kernel: [<ffffffff81407b12>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
>17:14:52 u1307 kernel: ------------[ cut here ]------------
>17:14:52 u1307 kernel: WARNING: at kernel/softirq.c:160
>local_bh_enable_ip+0x3c/0x9a()
>17:14:52 u1307 kernel: Modules linked in: bridge stp llc nfsd lockd exportfs
>sunrpc e1000e ptp pps_core
>17:14:52 u1307 kernel: CPU: 6 PID: 5289 Comm: ifconfig Tainted: G D
>3.10.0-rc1_net-next_e1000e_2850dce_regress-11638-gb471f26 #5
>17:14:52 u1307 kernel: Hardware name: Supermicro X9SCL/X9SCM/X9SCL/X9SCM, BIOS
>2.0b 09/17/2012
>17:14:52 u1307 kernel: ffffffff816e7023 ffff880222b2b808 ffffffff813ffaeb
>ffff880222b2b848
>17:14:52 u1307 kernel: ffffffff810287e6 ffffffff81a25188 0000000000000000
>ffff880221f91bc0
>17:14:52 u1307 kernel: ffff880221f91dd8 ffff880221f91f70 0000000000000000
>ffff880222b2b858
>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>The system remains up but unstable, attempts to access the network interface
>causes a hang, attempts to login to a new session on the console sometimes
>hang.
>This is happening with all adapters I've tried so far, 82579, 82578, 82574,
>ich10, ich9...
>
>
>On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 1:15 AM, Wei Yang <weiyang@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> desc_len represents the size of descriptor in rx_ring. There are two
> kinds of
> rx descriptors, e1000_rx_desc_packet_split(32 byte) and
> e1000_rx_desc_extended(16 byte). Different adapter will use different
> rx
> descriptors.
>
> When allocating the dma space for this descriptor in current
> implementation,
> the code ignore the descriptor type and take it as
> e1000_rx_desc_packet_split
> in any case. This behavior will not effect the function, but will
> require
> double size of dma space.
>
> This patch will calculate the desc_len based on the adapter type.
>
> Tested on T420, which use e1000_rx_desc_extended and works fine.
>
> Signed-off-by: Wei Yang <weiyang@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
> ---
> Â drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/netdev.c | Â Â 7 ++++++-
> Â 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/netdev.c b/drivers/
> net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/netdev.c
> index 5cb8321..a2e8a53 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/netdev.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/netdev.c
> @@ -2364,7 +2364,12 @@ int e1000e_setup_rx_resources(struct
> e1000_ring *rx_ring)
> Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â goto err_pages;
> Â Â Â Â }
>
> - Â Â Â desc_len = sizeof(union e1000_rx_desc_packet_split);
> + Â Â Â if (adapter->rx_ps_pages) {
> + Â Â Â Â Â Â Â /* this is a 32 byte descriptor */
> + Â Â Â Â Â Â Â desc_len = sizeof(union
> e1000_rx_desc_packet_split);
> + Â Â Â } else {
> + Â Â Â Â Â Â Â desc_len = sizeof(union
> e1000_rx_desc_extended);
> + Â Â Â }
>
> Â Â Â Â /* Round up to nearest 4K */
> Â Â Â Â rx_ring->size = rx_ring->count * desc_len;
> --
> 1.7.5.4
>
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>--
>Cheers,
>Jeff
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