On Fri, 2014-03-28 at 11:57 +0100, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> What I observe is that the TX queue is not empty and does not make any
> progress. gfar_clean_tx_ring() does not clean up the packet because it
> is not completed yet.
> The root cause is that the DMA engine did not start yet (it was
> preempted before doing so) and that dumb loop, loops until that packet
> is gone.
> This is broken since c233cf4 ("gianfar: Fix tx napi polling").
>
> What remains are spurious interrupts if CPU0 cleans up TX packages and
> CPU1 returns with IRQ_NONE.
>
> Cc: stable-rt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Why is this only being sent to RT and not to netdev for mainline?
> ---
> drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar.c | 11 +++++++----
> 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar.c
> index 8f1afda..091945c 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar.c
> @@ -134,7 +134,6 @@ static int gfar_poll_sq(struct napi_struct *napi, int budget);
> static void gfar_netpoll(struct net_device *dev);
> #endif
> int gfar_clean_rx_ring(struct gfar_priv_rx_q *rx_queue, int rx_work_limit);
> -static void gfar_clean_tx_ring(struct gfar_priv_tx_q *tx_queue);
> static void gfar_process_frame(struct net_device *dev, struct sk_buff *skb,
> int amount_pull, struct napi_struct *napi);
> void gfar_halt(struct net_device *dev);
> @@ -2516,7 +2515,7 @@ static void gfar_align_skb(struct sk_buff *skb)
> }
>
> /* Interrupt Handler for Transmit complete */
> -static void gfar_clean_tx_ring(struct gfar_priv_tx_q *tx_queue)
> +static int gfar_clean_tx_ring(struct gfar_priv_tx_q *tx_queue)
> {
> struct net_device *dev = tx_queue->dev;
> struct netdev_queue *txq;
> @@ -2939,10 +2938,14 @@ static int gfar_poll(struct napi_struct *napi, int budget)
You changed the return from void to int, but you never added any return
statement. GCC should have warned you about this...
-Scott
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