netdev - RE: [PATCH] net: ftgmac100: Fix missing TX-poll issue

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Date:   Mon, 19 Oct 2020 09:19:07 +0000
From:   Dylan Hung <dylan_hung@...eedtech.com>
To:     Joel Stanley <joel@....id.au>,
        Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
CC:     "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Po-Yu Chuang <ratbert@...aday-tech.com>,
        linux-aspeed <linux-aspeed@...ts.ozlabs.org>,
        OpenBMC Maillist <openbmc@...ts.ozlabs.org>,
        BMC-SW <BMC-SW@...eedtech.com>
Subject: RE: [PATCH] net: ftgmac100: Fix missing TX-poll issue

Hi Joel,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joel Stanley [mailto:joel@....id.au]
> Sent: Monday, October 19, 2020 4:57 PM
> To: Dylan Hung <dylan_hung@...eedtech.com>; Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
> Cc: David S . Miller <davem@...emloft.net>; Jakub Kicinski
> <kuba@...nel.org>; netdev@...r.kernel.org; Linux Kernel Mailing List
> <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>; Po-Yu Chuang <ratbert@...aday-tech.com>;
> linux-aspeed <linux-aspeed@...ts.ozlabs.org>; OpenBMC Maillist
> <openbmc@...ts.ozlabs.org>; BMC-SW <BMC-SW@...eedtech.com>
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: ftgmac100: Fix missing TX-poll issue
> 
> On Mon, 19 Oct 2020 at 07:39, Dylan Hung <dylan_hung@...eedtech.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > The cpu accesses the register and the memory via different bus/path on
> > aspeed soc.  So we can not guarantee that the tx-poll command
> 
> Just the 2600, or other versions too?

Just the 2600.  And this issue only occurred on Ethernet mac.

> 
> > (register access) is always behind the tx descriptor (memory).  In
> > other words, the HW may start working even the data is not yet ready.
> > By
> 
> even if the
> 
> > adding a dummy read after the last data write, we can ensure the data
> > are pushed to the memory, then guarantee the processing sequence
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Dylan Hung <dylan_hung@...eedtech.com>
> > ---
> >  drivers/net/ethernet/faraday/ftgmac100.c | 3 ++-
> >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/faraday/ftgmac100.c
> > b/drivers/net/ethernet/faraday/ftgmac100.c
> > index 00024dd41147..9a99a87f29f3 100644
> > --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/faraday/ftgmac100.c
> > +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/faraday/ftgmac100.c
> > @@ -804,7 +804,8 @@ static netdev_tx_t
> ftgmac100_hard_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb,
> >          * before setting the OWN bit on the first descriptor.
> >          */
> >         dma_wmb();
> > -       first->txdes0 = cpu_to_le32(f_ctl_stat);
> > +       WRITE_ONCE(first->txdes0, cpu_to_le32(f_ctl_stat));
> > +       READ_ONCE(first->txdes0);
> 
> I understand what you're trying to do here, but I'm not sure that this is the
> correct way to go about it.
> 
> It does cause the compiler to produce a store and then a load.
> 
> >
> >         /* Update next TX pointer */
> >         priv->tx_pointer = pointer;
> > --
> > 2.17.1
> >