Patchs available to 2.6.20 stable Kernel comment by Stephen is attached.
> sky2-pause-flush.patch
> sky2-tx-timeout-deadlock.patch
Subject: sky2: don't flush good pause frames
Don't mark pause frames as errors. This problem caused transmitter not
to pause and would effectively take out a gigabit switch because the
it can't handle overrun.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
drivers/net/sky2.h | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- linux-2.6.20.orig/drivers/net/sky2.h 2007-02-04 10:44:54.000000000 -0800
+++ linux-2.6.20/drivers/net/sky2.h 2007-02-14 16:33:23.000000000 -0800
@@ -1579,7 +1579,7 @@
GMR_FS_ANY_ERR = GMR_FS_RX_FF_OV | GMR_FS_CRC_ERR |
GMR_FS_FRAGMENT | GMR_FS_LONG_ERR |
- GMR_FS_MII_ERR | GMR_FS_GOOD_FC | GMR_FS_BAD_FC |
+ GMR_FS_MII_ERR | GMR_FS_BAD_FC |
GMR_FS_UN_SIZE | GMR_FS_JABBER,
};
Subject: sky2: transmit timeout deadlock
The code in transmit timeout incorrectly assumed that netif_tx_lock
was not set.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
--- linux-2.6.20.orig/drivers/net/sky2.c 2007-02-14 16:32:34.000000000 -0800
+++ linux-2.6.20/drivers/net/sky2.c 2007-02-14 16:33:03.000000000 -0800
@@ -1796,6 +1796,7 @@
/* Transmit timeout is only called if we are running, carries is up
* and tx queue is full (stopped).
+ * Called with netif_tx_lock held.
*/
static void sky2_tx_timeout(struct net_device *dev)
{
@@ -1821,17 +1822,14 @@
sky2_write8(hw, STAT_TX_TIMER_CTRL, TIM_START);
} else if (report != sky2->tx_cons) {
printk(KERN_INFO PFX "status report lost?\n");
-
- netif_tx_lock_bh(dev);
sky2_tx_complete(sky2, report);
- netif_tx_unlock_bh(dev);
} else {
printk(KERN_INFO PFX "hardware hung? flushing\n");
sky2_write32(hw, Q_ADDR(txq, Q_CSR), BMU_STOP);
sky2_write32(hw, Y2_QADDR(txq, PREF_UNIT_CTRL), PREF_UNIT_RST_SET);
- sky2_tx_clean(dev);
+ sky2_tx_complete(sky2, sky2->tx_prod);
sky2_qset(hw, txq);
sky2_prefetch_init(hw, txq, sky2->tx_le_map, TX_RING_SIZE - 1);
