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<title>linux-toradex.git/drivers/net/sfc/nic.h, branch v3.0.74</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>sfc: Fix two causes of flush failure</title>
<updated>2013-03-28T19:06:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ben Hutchings</name>
<email>bhutchings@solarflare.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-05-23T11:18:45+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commits a606f4325dca6950996abbae452d33f2af095f39,
  d5e8cc6c946e0857826dcfbb3585068858445bfe,
  525d9e824018cd7cc8d8d44832ddcd363abfe6e1 ]

The TX DMA engine issues upstream read requests when there is room in
the TX FIFO for the completion. However, the fetches for the rest of
the packet might be delayed by any back pressure.  Since a flush must
wait for an EOP, the entire flush may be delayed by back pressure.

Mitigate this by disabling flow control before the flushes are
started.  Since PF and VF flushes run in parallel introduce
fc_disable, a reference count of the number of flushes outstanding.

The same principle could be applied to Falcon, but that
would bring with it its own testing.

We sometimes hit a "failed to flush" timeout on some TX queues, but the
flushes have completed and the flush completion events seem to go missing.
In this case, we can check the TX_DESC_PTR_TBL register and drain the
queues if the flushes had finished.

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;bhutchings@solarflare.com&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.0:
 - Call efx_nic_type::finish_flush() on both success and failure paths
 - Check the TX_DESC_PTR_TBL registers in the polling loop
 - Declare efx_mcdi_set_mac() extern]
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commits a606f4325dca6950996abbae452d33f2af095f39,
  d5e8cc6c946e0857826dcfbb3585068858445bfe,
  525d9e824018cd7cc8d8d44832ddcd363abfe6e1 ]

The TX DMA engine issues upstream read requests when there is room in
the TX FIFO for the completion. However, the fetches for the rest of
the packet might be delayed by any back pressure.  Since a flush must
wait for an EOP, the entire flush may be delayed by back pressure.

Mitigate this by disabling flow control before the flushes are
started.  Since PF and VF flushes run in parallel introduce
fc_disable, a reference count of the number of flushes outstanding.

The same principle could be applied to Falcon, but that
would bring with it its own testing.

We sometimes hit a "failed to flush" timeout on some TX queues, but the
flushes have completed and the flush completion events seem to go missing.
In this case, we can check the TX_DESC_PTR_TBL register and drain the
queues if the flushes had finished.

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;bhutchings@solarflare.com&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.0:
 - Call efx_nic_type::finish_flush() on both success and failure paths
 - Check the TX_DESC_PTR_TBL registers in the polling loop
 - Declare efx_mcdi_set_mac() extern]
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>sfc: Fix maximum number of TSO segments and minimum TX queue size</title>
<updated>2012-10-02T16:47:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ben Hutchings</name>
<email>bhutchings@solarflare.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-07-30T15:57:44+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 7e6d06f0de3f74ca929441add094518ae332257c ]

Currently an skb requiring TSO may not fit within a minimum-size TX
queue.  The TX queue selected for the skb may stall and trigger the TX
watchdog repeatedly (since the problem skb will be retried after the
TX reset).  This issue is designated as CVE-2012-3412.

Set the maximum number of TSO segments for our devices to 100.  This
should make no difference to behaviour unless the actual MSS is less
than about 700.  Increase the minimum TX queue size accordingly to
allow for 2 worst-case skbs, so that there will definitely be space
to add an skb after we wake a queue.

To avoid invalidating existing configurations, change
efx_ethtool_set_ringparam() to fix up values that are too small rather
than returning -EINVAL.

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;bhutchings@solarflare.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 7e6d06f0de3f74ca929441add094518ae332257c ]

Currently an skb requiring TSO may not fit within a minimum-size TX
queue.  The TX queue selected for the skb may stall and trigger the TX
watchdog repeatedly (since the problem skb will be retried after the
TX reset).  This issue is designated as CVE-2012-3412.

Set the maximum number of TSO segments for our devices to 100.  This
should make no difference to behaviour unless the actual MSS is less
than about 700.  Increase the minimum TX queue size accordingly to
allow for 2 worst-case skbs, so that there will definitely be space
to add an skb after we wake a queue.

To avoid invalidating existing configurations, change
efx_ethtool_set_ringparam() to fix up values that are too small rather
than returning -EINVAL.

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;bhutchings@solarflare.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Revert "sfc: Use write-combining to reduce TX latency" and follow-ups</title>
<updated>2011-10-03T18:40:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ben Hutchings</name>
<email>bhutchings@solarflare.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-09-01T12:09:29+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 86c432ca5d6da90a26ac8d3e680f2268b502d9c5 ]

This reverts commits 65f0b417dee94f779ce9b77102b7d73c93723b39,
d88d6b05fee3cc78e5b0273eb58c31201dcc6b76,
fcfa060468a4edcf776f0c1211d826d5de1668c1,
747df2258b1b9a2e25929ef496262c339c380009 and
867955f5682f7157fdafe8670804b9f8ea077bc7.

Depending on the processor model, write-combining may result in
reordering that the NIC will not tolerate.  This typically results
in a DMA error event and reset by the driver, logged as:

sfc 0000:0e:00.0: eth2: TX DMA Q reports TX_EV_PKT_ERR.
sfc 0000:0e:00.0: eth2: resetting (ALL)

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;bhutchings@solarflare.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 86c432ca5d6da90a26ac8d3e680f2268b502d9c5 ]

This reverts commits 65f0b417dee94f779ce9b77102b7d73c93723b39,
d88d6b05fee3cc78e5b0273eb58c31201dcc6b76,
fcfa060468a4edcf776f0c1211d826d5de1668c1,
747df2258b1b9a2e25929ef496262c339c380009 and
867955f5682f7157fdafe8670804b9f8ea077bc7.

Depending on the processor model, write-combining may result in
reordering that the NIC will not tolerate.  This typically results
in a DMA error event and reset by the driver, logged as:

sfc 0000:0e:00.0: eth2: TX DMA Q reports TX_EV_PKT_ERR.
sfc 0000:0e:00.0: eth2: resetting (ALL)

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;bhutchings@solarflare.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6</title>
<updated>2011-05-17T21:33:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David S. Miller</name>
<email>davem@davemloft.net</email>
</author>
<published>2011-05-17T21:33:11+00:00</published>
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Conflicts:
	drivers/net/vmxnet3/vmxnet3_ethtool.c
	net/core/dev.c
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Conflicts:
	drivers/net/vmxnet3/vmxnet3_ethtool.c
	net/core/dev.c
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>sfc: Always map MCDI shared memory as uncacheable</title>
<updated>2011-05-12T14:16:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ben Hutchings</name>
<email>bhutchings@solarflare.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-05-11T16:41:18+00:00</published>
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We enabled write-combining for memory-mapped registers in commit
65f0b417dee94f779ce9b77102b7d73c93723b39, but inhibited it for the
MCDI shared memory where this is not supported.  However,
write-combining mappings also allow read-reordering, which may also
be a problem.

I found that when an SFC9000-family controller is connected to an
Intel 3000 chipset, and write-combining is enabled, the controller
stops responding to PCIe read requests during driver initialisation
while the driver is polling for completion of an MCDI command.  This
results in an NMI and system hang.  Adding read memory barriers
between all reads to the shared memory area appears to reduce but not
eliminate the probability of this.

We have not yet established whether this is a bug in our BIU or in the
PCIe bridge.  For now, work around by mapping the shared memory area
separately.

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;bhutchings@solarflare.com&gt;
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We enabled write-combining for memory-mapped registers in commit
65f0b417dee94f779ce9b77102b7d73c93723b39, but inhibited it for the
MCDI shared memory where this is not supported.  However,
write-combining mappings also allow read-reordering, which may also
be a problem.

I found that when an SFC9000-family controller is connected to an
Intel 3000 chipset, and write-combining is enabled, the controller
stops responding to PCIe read requests during driver initialisation
while the driver is polling for completion of an MCDI command.  This
results in an NMI and system hang.  Adding read memory barriers
between all reads to the shared memory area appears to reduce but not
eliminate the probability of this.

We have not yet established whether this is a bug in our BIU or in the
PCIe bridge.  For now, work around by mapping the shared memory area
separately.

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;bhutchings@solarflare.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6</title>
<updated>2011-04-19T07:21:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David S. Miller</name>
<email>davem@davemloft.net</email>
</author>
<published>2011-04-19T07:21:33+00:00</published>
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Conflicts:
	drivers/net/bnx2x/bnx2x_ethtool.c
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Conflicts:
	drivers/net/bnx2x/bnx2x_ethtool.c
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>sfc: make function tables const</title>
<updated>2011-04-15T04:53:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>stephen hemminger</name>
<email>shemminger@vyatta.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-04-14T05:50:12+00:00</published>
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The phy, mac, and board information structures should be const.
Since tables contain function pointer this improves security
(at least theoretically).

Compile tested only.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger &lt;shemminger@vyatta.com&gt;
Acked-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;bhutchings@solarflare.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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The phy, mac, and board information structures should be const.
Since tables contain function pointer this improves security
(at least theoretically).

Compile tested only.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger &lt;shemminger@vyatta.com&gt;
Acked-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;bhutchings@solarflare.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>sfc: Do not use efx_process_channel_now() in online self-test</title>
<updated>2011-04-12T15:37:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ben Hutchings</name>
<email>bhutchings@solarflare.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-04-04T13:22:11+00:00</published>
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During self-tests we use efx_process_channel_now() to handle
completion and other events synchronously.  This disables interrupts
and NAPI processing for the channel in question, but it may still be
interrupted by another channel.  A single socket may receive packets
from multiple net devices or even multiple channels of the same net
device, so this can result in deadlock on a socket lock.

Receiving packets in process context will also result in incorrect
classification by the network cgroup classifier.

Therefore, we must only use efx_process_channel_now() in the offline
loopback tests (which never deliver packets up the stack) and not for
the online interrupt and event tests.

For the interrupt test, there is no reason to process events.  We
only care that an interrupt is raised.

For the event test, we want to know whether events have been received,
and there may be many events ahead of the one we inject.  Therefore
remove efx_channel::magic_count and instead test whether
efx_channel::eventq_read_ptr advances.  This is currently an event
queue index and might wrap around to exactly the same value, resulting
in a false negative.  Therefore move the masking to efx_event() and
efx_nic_eventq_read_ack() so that it cannot wrap within the time of
the test.

The event test also tries to diagnose failures by checking whether an
event was delivered without causing an interrupt.  Add and use a
helper function that only does this.

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;bhutchings@solarflare.com&gt;
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During self-tests we use efx_process_channel_now() to handle
completion and other events synchronously.  This disables interrupts
and NAPI processing for the channel in question, but it may still be
interrupted by another channel.  A single socket may receive packets
from multiple net devices or even multiple channels of the same net
device, so this can result in deadlock on a socket lock.

Receiving packets in process context will also result in incorrect
classification by the network cgroup classifier.

Therefore, we must only use efx_process_channel_now() in the offline
loopback tests (which never deliver packets up the stack) and not for
the online interrupt and event tests.

For the interrupt test, there is no reason to process events.  We
only care that an interrupt is raised.

For the event test, we want to know whether events have been received,
and there may be many events ahead of the one we inject.  Therefore
remove efx_channel::magic_count and instead test whether
efx_channel::eventq_read_ptr advances.  This is currently an event
queue index and might wrap around to exactly the same value, resulting
in a false negative.  Therefore move the masking to efx_event() and
efx_nic_eventq_read_ack() so that it cannot wrap within the time of
the test.

The event test also tries to diagnose failures by checking whether an
event was delivered without causing an interrupt.  Add and use a
helper function that only does this.

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;bhutchings@solarflare.com&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>sfc: Remove configurable FIFO thresholds for pause frame generation</title>
<updated>2011-02-28T23:57:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ben Hutchings</name>
<email>bhutchings@solarflare.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-02-24T19:30:41+00:00</published>
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In Falcon we can configure the fill levels of the RX data FIFO which
trigger the generation of pause frames (if enabled), and we have
module parameters for this.

Siena does not allow the levels to be configured (or, if it does, this
is done by the MC firmware and is not configurable by drivers).

So far as I can tell, the module parameters are not used by our
internal scripts and have not been documented (with the exception of
the short parameter descriptions).  Therefore, remove them and always
initialise Falcon with the default values.

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;bhutchings@solarflare.com&gt;
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In Falcon we can configure the fill levels of the RX data FIFO which
trigger the generation of pause frames (if enabled), and we have
module parameters for this.

Siena does not allow the levels to be configured (or, if it does, this
is done by the MC firmware and is not configurable by drivers).

So far as I can tell, the module parameters are not used by our
internal scripts and have not been documented (with the exception of
the short parameter descriptions).  Therefore, remove them and always
initialise Falcon with the default values.

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;bhutchings@solarflare.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>sfc: Update copyright dates</title>
<updated>2011-02-28T23:57:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ben Hutchings</name>
<email>bhutchings@solarflare.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-02-25T00:01:34+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;bhutchings@solarflare.com&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;bhutchings@solarflare.com&gt;
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