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authorEric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>2009-07-02 04:04:45 +0000
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2009-07-05 18:03:33 -0700
commit78c29bd95bd8d2c3bcf7932cb3ab8ae01cd8f58f (patch)
tree3f74f5b337ba6a958e058a0dbeb1442601a67501
parent3942453948015228d6b1ae9835a6f6ca3e842aaa (diff)
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.c25
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/forcedeth.c b/drivers/net/forcedeth.c
index 1094d292630..3b4e0766c7b 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
{