The driver stores the PCI resource address into 'unsigned long' variable before
calling ioremap() on it. This warrants a kernel oops when the registers are
accessed on PPC 44x platforms which (being 32-bit) have PCI memory space mapped
beyond 4 GB.
The arch/ppc/ kernel has a fixup in ioremap() that creates an illusion of the
PCI memory resources are mapped below 4 GB, but arch/powerpc/ code got rid of
this trick, having instead CONFIG_RESOURCES_64BIT enabled.
Signed-off-by: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
The documentation regarding synchronisation at the head of the natsemi
driver was badly bitrotted so replace it with a general statement about
the techniques used which is less likely to bitrot.
Also remove the note saying these chips are uncommon - it makes little
difference but they were used in a number of laptops and at least one mass
market PCI ethernet card.
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@sirena.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Drivers do this to try to break out of the ->poll()'ing loop
when the device is being brought administratively down.
Now that we have a napi_disable() "pending" state we are going
to solve that problem generically.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* Andrew Nelless <andrew@nelless.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I booted up 2.6.24-rc1 this morning [Real early over a brew ;-)] and
> was having a problems with multiple ~5 second hangs on SATA/drive init
> (Something to do with "EH" something-or-other and resets but I'll
> email in separately about it later unless its fixed by the time I get
> the chance).
>
> Anyway, I went to fire up netconsole to get a decent log dump and hit
> across the following nasty. Netconsole works fine in 2.6.23.1 with a
> similar config and the same kernel parameters.
>
> A shot of the screen is the only method I could come up with to
> capture the log, I hope that is OK, it is pretty readable.
>
>
> The nasty:
> http://andotnet.nfshost.com/linux/2.6.24-rc1-netconsole-nullderef.jpg
the NULL dereference is here:
(gdb) list *0xffffffff804a9504
0xffffffff804a9504 is in natsemi_poll (drivers/net/natsemi.c:717).
712 return count;
713 }
714
715 static inline void __iomem *ns_ioaddr(struct net_device *dev)
716 {
717 return (void __iomem *) dev->base_addr;
718 }
719
which is this code from natsemi.c:
2227 struct net_device *dev = np->dev;
2228 void __iomem * ioaddr = ns_ioaddr(dev);
2229 int work_done = 0;
seems like the NAPI changes in -rc1 added an np->dev field but forgot to
initialize it ...
does the patch below fix the oops for you?
Ingo
-------------------->
Subject: natsemi: fix oops, link back netdevice from private-struct
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
this commit:
commit bea3348eef
Author: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Wed Oct 3 16:41:36 2007 -0700
[NET]: Make NAPI polling independent of struct net_device objects.
added np->dev to drivers/net/natsemi.c's struct netdev_private, but
forgot to initialize that new field upon driver init. The result was
a predictable NULL dereference oops the first time the hardware
generated an interrupt.
Reported-by: Andrew Nelless <andrew@nelless.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
pci_enable_device() is __must_check so do that in natsemi_resume().
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@sirena.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Unless we have failed to fill the RX ring the timer used by the natsemi
driver is not particularly urgent and can use round_jiffies() to allow
grouping with other timers.
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@sirena.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
The natsemi driver has a define NATSEMI_TIMER_FREQ which looks like it
controls the normal frequency of the chip poll timer but in fact only
takes effect for the first run of the timer. Adjust the value of the
define to match that used by the timer and use the define consistently.
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@sirena.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
It's been a useless no-op for long enough in 2.6 so I figured it's time to
remove it. The number of people that could object because they're
maintaining unified 2.4 and 2.6 drivers is probably rather small.
[ Handled drivers added by netdev tree and some missed IRDA cases... -DaveM ]
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Several devices have multiple independant RX queues per net
device, and some have a single interrupt doorbell for several
queues.
In either case, it's easier to support layouts like that if the
structure representing the poll is independant from the net
device itself.
The signature of the ->poll() call back goes from:
int foo_poll(struct net_device *dev, int *budget)
to
int foo_poll(struct napi_struct *napi, int budget)
The caller is returned the number of RX packets processed (or
the number of "NAPI credits" consumed if you want to get
abstract). The callee no longer messes around bumping
dev->quota, *budget, etc. because that is all handled in the
caller upon return.
The napi_struct is to be embedded in the device driver private data
structures.
Furthermore, it is the driver's responsibility to disable all NAPI
instances in it's ->stop() device close handler. Since the
napi_struct is privatized into the driver's private data structures,
only the driver knows how to get at all of the napi_struct instances
it may have per-device.
With lots of help and suggestions from Rusty Russell, Roland Dreier,
Michael Chan, Jeff Garzik, and Jamal Hadi Salim.
Bug fixes from Thomas Graf, Roland Dreier, Peter Zijlstra,
Joseph Fannin, Scott Wood, Hans J. Koch, and Michael Chan.
[ Ported to current tree and all drivers converted. Integrated
Stephen's follow-on kerneldoc additions, and restored poll_list
handling to the old style to fix mutual exclusion issues. -DaveM ]
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This episode illustrates how an overused warning can train people to
ignore that warning, which winds up hiding bugs.
The warning
drivers/net/natsemi.c: In function ‘natsemi_remove1’:
drivers/net/natsemi.c:3222: warning: ignoring return value of
‘device_create_file’, declared with attribute warn_unused_result
is oft-ignored, even though at close inspection one notices this occurs
in the /remove/ function, not normally where creation occurs. A quick
s/create/remove/ and we are fixed, with the warning gone.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
It hasn't "summed" anything in over 7 years, and it's
just a straight mempcy ala skb_copy_to_linear_data()
so just get rid of it.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The spinlock irq flags should be a unsigned long to properly support 64 bit
Signed-off-by: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Remove broken URLs (www.scyld.com) from network drivers' logging output.
URLs in comments and other strings are left intact.
Signed-off-by: Markus Dahms <dahms@fh-brandenburg.de>
Acked-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
igned-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
The natsemi driver contains a workaround for broken hardware which can
partially reset the chip at unpredictable times, detected by checking for
spontaneous changes in the DspCfg register. The effects of the hardware
bug appear to be variable and can range from minor problems like small
numbers of corrupted packets to major ones such as the chip becoming
non-functional. In the case of minor problems the chip reconfiguration
required to work around the hardware can cause more problems than the bug
itself.
Since we have no way of automatically determining how badly the problem
manifests on any given system provide an option in sysfs allowing users to
disable the workaround at runtime and provides a module option to set the
default.
Signed-Off-By: Mark Brown <broonie@sirena.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
The natsemi driver has a workaround for broken hardware which resets itself
from time to time. There is a diagnostic message for this workaround but
it is not printed by default, making the driver behavior more obscure than
it needs to be. Make the message be displayed by default.
Signed-Off-By: Mark Brown <broonie@sirena.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
One less thing for drivers writers to worry about.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This patch fixes the poll routine for the natsemi driver so that if the
driver detects an RX state machine lockup then no interrupts will be
lost while the driver recovers from that.
Signed-Off-By: Mark Brown <broonie@sirena.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
The interrupt status register for the natsemi chips is clear on read and
was read unconditionally from both the interrupt and from the NAPI poll
routine, meaning that if the interrupt service routine was called (for
example, due to a shared interrupt) while a NAPI poll was scheduled
interrupts could be missed. This patch fixes that by ensuring that the
interrupt status register is only read by the interrupt handler when
interrupts are enabled from the chip.
It also reverts a workaround for this problem from the netpoll hook and
improves the trace for interrupt events.
Thanks to Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com> for spotting the
issue, Mark Huth <mhuth@mvista.com> for a simpler method and Simon
Blake <simon@citylink.co.nz> for testing resources.
Signed-Off-By: Mark Brown <broonie@sirena.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
The natsemi drivers include functions for enabling and disabling
interrupts from the chip but these are not used in all code paths. This
patch changes the code paths that touch the interrupt enable register to
use the functions. In all cases this adds an extra PCI read to post the
operation but since none of these are in fast paths this shouldn't be
too much of a problem.
Signed-Off-By: Mark Brown <broonie@sirena.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
