Le mercredi 17 février 2010 à 15:55 +0100, Anatolij Gustschin a écrit :
> MPC5121 FEC requeries 4-byte alignmnent for TX data buffers.
> This patch is a work around that copies misaligned tx packets
> to an aligned skb before sending.
> 
> Signed-off-by: John Rigby <jcri...@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Piotr Ziecik <ko...@semihalf.com>
> Signed-off-by: Wolfgang Denk <w...@denx.de>
> Signed-off-by: Anatolij Gustschin <ag...@denx.de>
> ---
>  drivers/net/fs_enet/fs_enet-main.c |   44 
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 files changed, 44 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/fs_enet/fs_enet-main.c 
> b/drivers/net/fs_enet/fs_enet-main.c
> index 4297021..166a89d 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/fs_enet/fs_enet-main.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/fs_enet/fs_enet-main.c
> @@ -580,6 +580,37 @@ void fs_cleanup_bds(struct net_device *dev)
>  
>  
> /**********************************************************************************/
>  
> +#ifdef CONFIG_FS_ENET_MPC5121_FEC
> +/*
> + * MPC5121 FEC requeries 4-byte alignment for TX data buffer!
> + */
> +static struct sk_buff *tx_skb_align_workaround(struct net_device *dev,
> +                                            struct sk_buff *skb)
> +{
> +     struct sk_buff *new_skb;
> +     struct fs_enet_private *fep = netdev_priv(dev);
> +
> +     /* Alloc new skb */
> +     new_skb = dev_alloc_skb(ENET_RX_FRSIZE + 4);


ENET_RX_FRSIZE looks strange in TX path

Why not using skb->len + 4 instead of ENET_RX_FRSIZE + 4 ?


> +     if (!new_skb) {
> +             dev_warn(fep->dev, "Memory squeeze, dropping tx packet.\n");

I am just wondering if this is ratelimited ?

> +             return NULL;
> +     }
> +
> +     /* Make sure new skb is properly aligned */
> +     skb_align(new_skb, 4);

> +
> +     /* Copy data to new skb ... */
> +     skb_copy_from_linear_data(skb, new_skb->data, skb->len);
> +     skb_put(new_skb, skb->len);
> +
> +     /* ... and free an old one */
> +     dev_kfree_skb_any(skb);
> +
> +     return new_skb;
> +}
> +#endif
> +
>  static int fs_enet_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
>  {
>       struct fs_enet_private *fep = netdev_priv(dev);
> @@ -588,6 +619,19 @@ static int fs_enet_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, 
> struct net_device *dev)
>       u16 sc;
>       unsigned long flags;
>  
> +#ifdef CONFIG_FS_ENET_MPC5121_FEC
> +     if (((unsigned long)skb->data) & 0x3) {
> +             skb = tx_skb_align_workaround(dev, skb);
> +             if (!skb) {
> +                     /*
> +                      * We have lost packet due to memory allocation error
> +                      * in tx_skb_align_workaround(). Hopefully original
> +                      * skb is still valid, so try transmit it later.
> +                      */

Could you define 'try to transmit later' ?
Who is responsible to trigger this event ?


> +                     return NETDEV_TX_BUSY;
> +             }
> +     }
> +#endif
>       spin_lock_irqsave(&fep->tx_lock, flags);
>  
>       /*


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