macb: Don't re-enable interrupts while in polling mode
On a busy network, the macb driver could get stuck in the interrupt handler, quickly triggering the watchdog, due to a confluence of factors: 1. macb_poll re-enables interrupts unconditionally, even when it will be called again because it exhausted its rx budget 2. macb_interrupt only disables interrupts after scheduling macb_poll, but scheduling fails when macb_poll is already scheduled because it didn't call napi_complete 3. macb_interrupt loops until the interrupt status register is clear, which will never happen in this case if the driver doesn't disable the RX interrupt Since macb_interrupt runs in interrupt context, this effectively locks up the machine, triggering the hardware watchdog. This issue was readily reproducible on a flooded network with a modified 2.6.27.48 kernel. The same problem appears to still be in the 2.6.36-rc8 driver code, so I am submitting this patch against that version. I have not tested this version of the patch except to make sure the kernel compiles. Signed-off-by: Joshua Hoke <joshua.hoke@sixnet.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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@ -515,7 +515,7 @@ static int macb_poll(struct napi_struct *napi, int budget)
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(unsigned long)status, budget);
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work_done = macb_rx(bp, budget);
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if (work_done < budget)
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if (work_done < budget) {
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napi_complete(napi);
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/*
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@ -523,6 +523,7 @@ static int macb_poll(struct napi_struct *napi, int budget)
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* get notified when new packets arrive.
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*/
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macb_writel(bp, IER, MACB_RX_INT_FLAGS);
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}
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/* TODO: Handle errors */
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@ -550,12 +551,16 @@ static irqreturn_t macb_interrupt(int irq, void *dev_id)
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}
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if (status & MACB_RX_INT_FLAGS) {
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if (napi_schedule_prep(&bp->napi)) {
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/*
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* There's no point taking any more interrupts
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* until we have processed the buffers
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* until we have processed the buffers. The
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* scheduling call may fail if the poll routine
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* is already scheduled, so disable interrupts
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* now.
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*/
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macb_writel(bp, IDR, MACB_RX_INT_FLAGS);
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if (napi_schedule_prep(&bp->napi)) {
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dev_dbg(&bp->pdev->dev,
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"scheduling RX softirq\n");
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__napi_schedule(&bp->napi);
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