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| author | Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> | 2009-07-02 04:04:45 +0000 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2009-07-05 18:03:33 -0700 |
| commit | 78c29bd95bd8d2c3bcf7932cb3ab8ae01cd8f58f (patch) | |
| tree | 3f74f5b337ba6a958e058a0dbeb1442601a67501 | |
| parent | 3942453948015228d6b1ae9835a6f6ca3e842aaa (diff) | |
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forcedeth: Fix NAPI race.
Eric Dumazet a écrit :
> Ingo Molnar a écrit :
>>> The following changes since commit 52989765629e7d182b4f146050ebba0abf2cb0b7:
>>> Linus Torvalds (1):
>>> Merge git://git.kernel.org/.../davem/net-2.6
>>>
>>> are available in the git repository at:
>>>
>>> master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6.git master
>> Hm, something in this lot quickly wrecked networking here - see the
>> tx timeout dump below. It starts with:
>>
>> [ 351.004596] WARNING: at net/sched/sch_generic.c:246 dev_watchdog+0x10b/0x19c()
>> [ 351.011815] Hardware name: System Product Name
>> [ 351.016220] NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0 (forcedeth): transmit queue 0 timed out
>>
>> Config attached. Unfortunately i've got no time to do bisection
>> today.
>
>
>
> forcedeth might have a problem, in its netif_wake_queue() logic, but
> I could not see why a recent patch could make this problem visible now.
>
> CPU0/1: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+ stepping 02
> is not a new cpu either :)
>
> forcedeth uses an internal tx_stop without appropriate barrier.
>
> Could you try following patch ?
>
> (random guess as I dont have much time right now)
We might have a race in napi_schedule(), leaving interrupts disabled forever.
I cannot test this patch, I dont have the hardware...
Tested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/forcedeth.c | 25 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/forcedeth.c b/drivers/net/forcedeth.c index 1094d292630f..3b4e0766c7b2 100644 --- a/drivers/net/forcedeth.c +++ b/drivers/net/forcedeth.c @@ -3514,11 +3514,13 @@ static irqreturn_t nv_nic_irq(int foo, void *data) nv_msi_workaround(np); #ifdef CONFIG_FORCEDETH_NAPI - napi_schedule(&np->napi); - - /* Disable furthur irq's - (msix not enabled with napi) */ - writel(0, base + NvRegIrqMask); + if (napi_schedule_prep(&np->napi)) { + /* + * Disable further irq's (msix not enabled with napi) + */ + writel(0, base + NvRegIrqMask); + __napi_schedule(&np->napi); + } #else do @@ -3615,12 +3617,13 @@ static irqreturn_t nv_nic_irq_optimized(int foo, void *data) nv_msi_workaround(np); #ifdef CONFIG_FORCEDETH_NAPI - napi_schedule(&np->napi); - - /* Disable furthur irq's - (msix not enabled with napi) */ - writel(0, base + NvRegIrqMask); - + if (napi_schedule_prep(&np->napi)) { + /* + * Disable further irq's (msix not enabled with napi) + */ + writel(0, base + NvRegIrqMask); + __napi_schedule(&np->napi); + } #else do { |
