On 05/10/2012 10:32 AM, Greg KH wrote:
> 3.3-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
>
> ------------------
>
>
> From: Alexander Duyck <[email protected]>
>
> [ Upstream commit 5c4903549c05bbb373479e0ce2992573c120654a ]
>
> We are seeing dev_watchdog hangs on several drivers.  I suspect this is due
> to the __QUEUE_STATE_STACK_XOFF bit being set prior to a reset for link
> change, and then not being cleared by netdev_tx_reset_queue.  This change
> corrects that.
>
> In addition we were seeing dev_watchdog hangs on igb after running the
> ethtool tests.  We found this to be due to the fact that the ethtool test
> runs the same logic as ndo_start_xmit, but we were never clearing the XOFF
> flag since the loopback test in ethtool does not do byte queue accounting.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <[email protected]>
> Tested-by: Stephen Ko <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
> ---
>  drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c |    3 ++-
>  include/linux/netdevice.h                 |    1 +
>  2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c
> @@ -2750,6 +2750,8 @@ void igb_configure_tx_ring(struct igb_ad
>  
>       txdctl |= E1000_TXDCTL_QUEUE_ENABLE;
>       wr32(E1000_TXDCTL(reg_idx), txdctl);
> +
> +     netdev_tx_reset_queue(txring_txq(ring));
>  }
>  
>  /**
> @@ -3242,7 +3244,6 @@ static void igb_clean_tx_ring(struct igb
>               buffer_info = &tx_ring->tx_buffer_info[i];
>               igb_unmap_and_free_tx_resource(tx_ring, buffer_info);
>       }
> -     netdev_tx_reset_queue(txring_txq(tx_ring));
>  
>       size = sizeof(struct igb_tx_buffer) * tx_ring->count;
>       memset(tx_ring->tx_buffer_info, 0, size);
All of the changes in igb are unnecessary.  I think they can be dropped
from the patch as they have already been reverted from the latest
net-next.  The only change that is really needed is the piece in
netdevice.h below.
> --- a/include/linux/netdevice.h
> +++ b/include/linux/netdevice.h
> @@ -1955,6 +1955,7 @@ static inline void netdev_completed_queu
>  static inline void netdev_tx_reset_queue(struct netdev_queue *q)
>  {
>  #ifdef CONFIG_BQL
> +     clear_bit(__QUEUE_STATE_STACK_XOFF, &q->state);
>       dql_reset(&q->dql);
>  #endif
>  }
>
>
Thanks,

Alex
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