netdev - [PATCH 1/1] gianfar: fix a flooded alignment reports because of padding issue.

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Date:   Mon, 4 Dec 2017 11:22:02 +0800
From:   Zumeng Chen <zumeng.chen@...il.com>
To:     <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
CC:     <claudiu.manoil@....com>, <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: [PATCH 1/1] gianfar: fix a flooded alignment reports because of padding issue.

According to LS1021A RM, the value of PAL can be set so that the start of the
IP header in the receive data buffer is aligned to a 32-bit boundary. Normally,
setting PAL = 2 provides minimal padding to ensure such alignment of the IP
header.

However every incoming packet's 8-byte time stamp will be inserted into the
packet data buffer as padding alignment bytes when hardware time stamping is
enabled.

So we set the padding 8+2 here to avoid the flooded alignment faults:

root@128:~# cat /proc/cpu/alignment
User:           0
System:         17539 (inet_gro_receive+0x114/0x2c0)
Skipped:        0
Half:           0
Word:           0
DWord:          0
Multi:          17539
User faults:    2 (fixup)

Also shown when exception report enablement

CPU: 0 PID: 161 Comm: irq/66-eth1_g0_ Not tainted 4.1.21-rt13-WR8.0.0.0_preempt-rt #16
Hardware name: Freescale LS1021A
[<8001b420>] (unwind_backtrace) from [<8001476c>] (show_stack+0x20/0x24)
[<8001476c>] (show_stack) from [<807cfb48>] (dump_stack+0x94/0xac)
[<807cfb48>] (dump_stack) from [<80025d70>] (do_alignment+0x720/0x958)
[<80025d70>] (do_alignment) from [<80009224>] (do_DataAbort+0x40/0xbc)
[<80009224>] (do_DataAbort) from [<80015398>] (__dabt_svc+0x38/0x60)
Exception stack(0x86ad1cc0 to 0x86ad1d08)
1cc0: f9b3e080 86b3d072 2d78d287 00000000 866816c0 86b3d05e 86e785d0 00000000
1ce0: 00000011 0000000e 80840ab0 86ad1d3c 86ad1d08 86ad1d08 806d7fc0 806d806c
1d00: 40070013 ffffffff
[<80015398>] (__dabt_svc) from [<806d806c>] (inet_gro_receive+0x114/0x2c0)
[<806d806c>] (inet_gro_receive) from [<80660eec>] (dev_gro_receive+0x21c/0x3c0)
[<80660eec>] (dev_gro_receive) from [<8066133c>] (napi_gro_receive+0x44/0x17c)
[<8066133c>] (napi_gro_receive) from [<804f0538>] (gfar_clean_rx_ring+0x39c/0x7d4)
[<804f0538>] (gfar_clean_rx_ring) from [<804f0bf4>] (gfar_poll_rx_sq+0x58/0xe0)
[<804f0bf4>] (gfar_poll_rx_sq) from [<80660b10>] (net_rx_action+0x27c/0x43c)
[<80660b10>] (net_rx_action) from [<80033638>] (do_current_softirqs+0x1e0/0x3dc)
[<80033638>] (do_current_softirqs) from [<800338c4>] (__local_bh_enable+0x90/0xa8)
[<800338c4>] (__local_bh_enable) from [<8008025c>] (irq_forced_thread_fn+0x70/0x84)
[<8008025c>] (irq_forced_thread_fn) from [<800805e8>] (irq_thread+0x16c/0x244)
[<800805e8>] (irq_thread) from [<8004e490>] (kthread+0xe8/0x104)
[<8004e490>] (kthread) from [<8000fda8>] (ret_from_fork+0x14/0x2c)

Signed-off-by: Zumeng Chen <zumeng.chen@...il.com>
---

Hi,

This patch has been seen in arm and validated, and compile, boot, and ptpd testing passed in powerpc as well.
Not sure if it's the similar fix as fec_main.c did, all yours.

Cheers,

 drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar.c | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar.c
index e616b71..e47945f 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar.c
@@ -1413,9 +1413,11 @@ static int gfar_probe(struct platform_device *ofdev)
 
 	gfar_init_addr_hash_table(priv);
 
-	/* Insert receive time stamps into padding alignment bytes */
+	/* Insert receive time stamps into padding alignment bytes, and
+	 * plus 2 bytes padding to ensure the cpu alignment.
+	 */
 	if (priv->device_flags & FSL_GIANFAR_DEV_HAS_TIMER)
-		priv->padding = 8;
+		priv->padding = 8 + DEFAULT_PADDING;
 
 	if (dev->features & NETIF_F_IP_CSUM ||
 	    priv->device_flags & FSL_GIANFAR_DEV_HAS_TIMER)
-- 
2.5.0