This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled net: mvpp2: do not disable GMAC padding to the 4.14-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: net-mvpp2-do-not-disable-gmac-padding.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From e749aca84b10f3987b2ee1f76e0c7d8aacc5653c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Yan Markman <ymarkman@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2017 14:19:50 +0100 Subject: net: mvpp2: do not disable GMAC padding From: Yan Markman <ymarkman@xxxxxxxxxxx> commit e749aca84b10f3987b2ee1f76e0c7d8aacc5653c upstream. Short fragmented packets may never be sent by the hardware when padding is disabled. This patch stop modifying the GMAC padding bits, to leave them to their reset value (disabled). Fixes: 3919357fb0bb ("net: mvpp2: initialize the GMAC when using a port") Signed-off-by: Yan Markman <ymarkman@xxxxxxxxxxx> [Antoine: commit message] Signed-off-by: Antoine Tenart <antoine.tenart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvpp2.c | 9 --------- 1 file changed, 9 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvpp2.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvpp2.c @@ -4552,11 +4552,6 @@ static void mvpp2_port_mii_gmac_configur MVPP22_CTRL4_QSGMII_BYPASS_ACTIVE; val &= ~MVPP22_CTRL4_EXT_PIN_GMII_SEL; writel(val, port->base + MVPP22_GMAC_CTRL_4_REG); - - val = readl(port->base + MVPP2_GMAC_CTRL_2_REG); - val |= MVPP2_GMAC_DISABLE_PADDING; - val &= ~MVPP2_GMAC_FLOW_CTRL_MASK; - writel(val, port->base + MVPP2_GMAC_CTRL_2_REG); } else if (phy_interface_mode_is_rgmii(port->phy_interface)) { val = readl(port->base + MVPP22_GMAC_CTRL_4_REG); val |= MVPP22_CTRL4_EXT_PIN_GMII_SEL | @@ -4564,10 +4559,6 @@ static void mvpp2_port_mii_gmac_configur MVPP22_CTRL4_QSGMII_BYPASS_ACTIVE; val &= ~MVPP22_CTRL4_DP_CLK_SEL; writel(val, port->base + MVPP22_GMAC_CTRL_4_REG); - - val = readl(port->base + MVPP2_GMAC_CTRL_2_REG); - val &= ~MVPP2_GMAC_DISABLE_PADDING; - writel(val, port->base + MVPP2_GMAC_CTRL_2_REG); } /* The port is connected to a copper PHY */ Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from ymarkman@xxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.14/net-mvpp2-do-not-disable-gmac-padding.patch