While polling in NAPI mode, we were occassionally getting interrupts
re-enabled by the watchdog trying to generate a software interrupt. Fix
is to add a spinlock around that shared hardware register to allow a
read-modify-write operation. This was nasty nasty. I don't like the
spinlock in the hot path but i see no other way. Comments are welcome.
Updates the driver version as well.
Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@xxxxxxxxx>
--- netdev-2.6/drivers/net/e100.c 2004-09-21 13:54:33.000000000 -0700
+++ /home/jbrandeb/netdev-2.6/drivers/net/e100.c.watchdog.patch 2004-09-22
11:49:05.000000000 -0700
@@ -155,7 +155,7 @@
#define DRV_NAME "e100"
#define DRV_EXT "-NAPI"
-#define DRV_VERSION "3.1.4"DRV_EXT
+#define DRV_VERSION "3.1.4-k2"DRV_EXT
#define DRV_DESCRIPTION "Intel(R) PRO/100 Network Driver"
#define DRV_COPYRIGHT "Copyright(c) 1999-2004 Intel Corporation"
#define PFX DRV_NAME ": "
@@ -575,13 +575,21 @@ static inline void e100_write_flush(stru
static inline void e100_enable_irq(struct nic *nic)
{
+ unsigned long flags;
+
+ spin_lock_irqsave(&nic->cmd_lock, flags);
writeb(irq_mask_none, &nic->csr->scb.cmd_hi);
+ spin_unlock_irqrestore(&nic->cmd_lock, flags);
e100_write_flush(nic);
}
static inline void e100_disable_irq(struct nic *nic)
{
+ unsigned long flags;
+
+ spin_lock_irqsave(&nic->cmd_lock, flags);
writeb(irq_mask_all, &nic->csr->scb.cmd_hi);
+ spin_unlock_irqrestore(&nic->cmd_lock, flags);
e100_write_flush(nic);
}
@@ -1254,8 +1262,13 @@ static void e100_watchdog(unsigned long
mii_check_link(&nic->mii);
/* Software generated interrupt to recover from (rare) Rx
- * allocation failure */
- writeb(irq_sw_gen, &nic->csr->scb.cmd_hi);
+ * allocation failure.
+ * Unfortunately have to use a spinlock to not re-enable interrupts
+ * accidentally, due to hardware that shares a register between the
+ * interrupt mask bit and the SW Interrupt generation bit */
+ spin_lock_irq(&nic->cmd_lock);
+ writeb(readb(&nic->csr->scb.cmd_hi) | irq_sw_gen,&nic->csr->scb.cmd_hi);
+ spin_unlock_irq(&nic->cmd_lock);
e100_write_flush(nic);
e100_update_stats(nic);
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