From: Simon Guinot
Sent: 08 November 2017 16:59
The mvneta controller provides a 8-bit register to update the pending Tx descriptor counter. Then, a maximum of 255 Tx descriptors can be added at once. In the current code the mvneta_txq_pend_desc_add function assumes the caller takes care of this limit. But it is not the case. In some situations (xmit_more flag), more than 255 descriptors are added. When this happens, the Tx descriptor counter register is updated with a wrong value, which breaks the whole Tx queue management.
Even with xmit_more it is usually best to limit the number (in order to reduce tx latency).
OTOH there are probably paths where it 'just happens'.
This patch fixes the issue by allowing the mvneta_txq_pend_desc_add function to process more than 255 Tx descriptors.
Fixes: 2a90f7e1d5d0 ("net: mvneta: add xmit_more support") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.11+ Signed-off-by: Simon Guinot simon.guinot@sequanux.org
drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvneta.c | 16 +++++++++------- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvneta.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvneta.c index 64a04975bcf8..027c08ce4e5d 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvneta.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvneta.c @@ -816,11 +816,14 @@ static void mvneta_txq_pend_desc_add(struct mvneta_port *pp, { u32 val;
- /* Only 255 descriptors can be added at once ; Assume caller
* process TX desriptors in quanta less than 256*/- val = pend_desc + txq->pending;
- mvreg_write(pp, MVNETA_TXQ_UPDATE_REG(txq->id), val);
- pend_desc += txq->pending;
- /* Only 255 Tx descriptors can be added at once */
- while (pend_desc > 0) {
val = min(pend_desc, 255);mvreg_write(pp, MVNETA_TXQ_UPDATE_REG(txq->id), val);pend_desc -= val;- }
do { ... } while () ??
David