From: Marcin Wojtas <m...@semihalf.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2018 13:56:49 +0100
> Recent changes in the mvneta driver reworked allocation
> and handling of the ingress buffers to use entire pages.
> Apart from that in SW BM scenario the HW must be informed
> via PRXDQS about the biggest possible incoming buffer
> that can be propagated by RX descriptors.
>
> The BufferSize field was filled according to the MTU-dependent
> pkt_size value. Later change to PAGE_SIZE broke RX operation
> when usin 64K pages, as the field is simply too small.
>
> This patch conditionally limits the value passed to the BufferSize
> of the PRXDQS register, depending on the PAGE_SIZE used.
> On the occasion remove now unused frag_size field of the mvneta_port
> structure.
>
> Fixes: 562e2f467e71 ("net: mvneta: Improve the buffer allocation method for
> SWBM")
> Signed-off-by: Marcin Wojtas <m...@semihalf.com>
The discussion died on this, but the bug should be fixed.
So in the short term I am applying this and queueing it up for v4.19
-stable.
Thanks.
