netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/2] net: ethernet: sxgbe: remove private tx queue lock

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Message-ID: <20161218183010.GA7886@amd>
Date:   Sun, 18 Dec 2016 19:30:10 +0100
From:   Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
To:     Lino Sanfilippo <LinoSanfilippo@....de>
Cc:     Francois Romieu <romieu@...zoreil.com>, bh74.an@...sung.com,
        ks.giri@...sung.com, vipul.pandya@...sung.com,
        peppe.cavallaro@...com, alexandre.torgue@...com,
        davem@...emloft.net, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] net: ethernet: sxgbe: remove private tx queue lock

Hi!

> > - e1efa87241272104d6a12c8b9fcdc4f62634d447
> 
> Yep, a sync of the dma descriptors before the hardware gets ownership of the tx tail
> idx is missing in the stmmac, too.

I can reproduce failure with 4.4 fairly easily. I tried with dma_
variant of barriers, and it failed, too

[ 1018.410012] stmmac: early irq
[ 1023.939702] fpga_cmd_read:wait_event timed out!
[ 1033.128692] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[ 1033.133329] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 0 at net/sched/sch_generic.c:303
dev_watchdog+0x264/0x284()
[ 1033.141748] NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0 (socfpga-dwmac): transmit queue 0
timed out
[ 1033.148861] Modules linked in:

									Pavel

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