This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled stmmac: Discard masked flags in interrupt status register to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: stmmac-discard-masked-flags-in-interrupt-status-register.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From foo@baz Tue Feb 14 17:03:08 PST 2017 From: Alexey Brodkin <Alexey.Brodkin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2017 15:24:43 +0300 Subject: stmmac: Discard masked flags in interrupt status register From: Alexey Brodkin <Alexey.Brodkin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 0a764db103376cf69d04449b10688f3516cc0b88 ] DW GMAC databook says the following about bits in "Register 15 (Interrupt Mask Register)": --------------------------->8------------------------- When set, this bit __disables_the_assertion_of_the_interrupt_signal__ because of the setting of XXX bit in Register 14 (Interrupt Status Register). --------------------------->8------------------------- In fact even if we mask one bit in the mask register it doesn't prevent corresponding bit to appear in the status register, it only disables interrupt generation for corresponding event. But currently we expect a bit different behavior: status bits to be in sync with their masks, i.e. if mask for bit A is set in the mask register then bit A won't appear in the interrupt status register. This was proven to be incorrect assumption, see discussion here [1]. That misunderstanding causes unexpected behaviour of the GMAC, for example we were happy enough to just see bogus messages about link state changes. So from now on we'll be only checking bits that really may trigger an interrupt. [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/11/3/413 Signed-off-by: Alexey Brodkin <abrodkin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Giuseppe Cavallaro <peppe.cavallaro@xxxxxx> Cc: Fabrice Gasnier <fabrice.gasnier@xxxxxx> Cc: Joachim Eastwood <manabian@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Phil Reid <preid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Alexandre Torgue <alexandre.torgue@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwmac1000_core.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwmac1000_core.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwmac1000_core.c @@ -305,8 +305,12 @@ static int dwmac1000_irq_status(struct m { void __iomem *ioaddr = hw->pcsr; u32 intr_status = readl(ioaddr + GMAC_INT_STATUS); + u32 intr_mask = readl(ioaddr + GMAC_INT_MASK); int ret = 0; + /* Discard masked bits */ + intr_status &= ~intr_mask; + /* Not used events (e.g. MMC interrupts) are not handled. */ if ((intr_status & GMAC_INT_STATUS_MMCTIS)) x->mmc_tx_irq_n++; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from Alexey.Brodkin@xxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.9/stmmac-discard-masked-flags-in-interrupt-status-register.patch