From: Ben Dooks > Sent: 02 October 2018 10:27 > > The tegra driver requires alignment of the buffer, so try and > make this better by pushing the buffer start back to an word > aligned address. At the worst this makes memcpy() easier as > it is word aligned, at best it makes sure the usb can directly > map the buffer. > > Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben.dooks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > [todo - make this configurable] > --- > drivers/net/usb/Kconfig | 12 ++++++++++++ > drivers/net/usb/smsc95xx.c | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++-- > 2 files changed, 32 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/net/usb/Kconfig b/drivers/net/usb/Kconfig ... > +static bool align_tx = IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_USB_NET_SMSC95XX_TXALIGN); > +module_param(align_tx, bool, 0644); > +MODULE_PARM_DESC(align_tx, "Align TX buffers to word boundaries"); DM doesn't like module parameters. > static bool turbo_mode = IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_USB_NET_SMSC95XX_TURBO); > module_param(turbo_mode, bool, 0644); > MODULE_PARM_DESC(turbo_mode, "Enable multiple frames per Rx transaction"); > @@ -2005,10 +2009,18 @@ static struct sk_buff *smsc95xx_tx_fixup(struct usbnet *dev, > bool csum = skb->ip_summed == CHECKSUM_PARTIAL; > int overhead = csum ? SMSC95XX_TX_OVERHEAD_CSUM : SMSC95XX_TX_OVERHEAD; > u32 tx_cmd_a, tx_cmd_b; > + u32 data_len; > + uintptr_t align = 0; > > /* We do not advertise SG, so skbs should be already linearized */ > BUG_ON(skb_shinfo(skb)->nr_frags); > > + if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_USB_NET_SMSC95XX_TXALIGN) && align_tx) { > + align = (uintptr_t)skb->data & 3; > + if (align) > + overhead += 4 - align; Better to calculate the pad size once: align = (-(long)skb->data) & 3; should do it - and you can unconditionally add it in. > + } > + > /* Make writable and expand header space by overhead if required */ > if (skb_cow_head(skb, overhead)) { > /* Must deallocate here as returning NULL to indicate error > @@ -2037,16 +2049,22 @@ static struct sk_buff *smsc95xx_tx_fixup(struct usbnet *dev, > } > } > > + data_len = skb->len; > + if (align) > + skb_push(skb, 4 - align); > + > skb_push(skb, 4); You don't want to call skb_push() twice. IIRC really horrid things happen if the data has to be copied. (Actually what happens to the alignment in that case??) And there is another skb_push() below.... > - tx_cmd_b = (u32)(skb->len - 4); > + tx_cmd_b = (u32)(data_len); You don't need the cast here at all (if it was ever needed). Actually you don't need the new 'data_len' variable. Just set tx_cmd_b earlier. ... David - Registered Address Lakeside, Bramley Road, Mount Farm, Milton Keynes, MK1 1PT, UK Registration No: 1397386 (Wales)