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MACB: clear transmit buffers properly on transmit underrun

Initially transmit buffer pointers were only reset. But buffer
descriptors were possibly still set as ready, and buffer in upper
layer was not freed. This caused driver hang under big load.  Now
reset clean properly the buffer descriptor and freed upper layer.

Signed-off-by: Gregory CLEMENT <gclement00@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Gregory CLEMENT 17 years ago
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bdcba1511b
1 changed files with 24 additions and 1 deletions
  1. 24 1
      drivers/net/macb.c

+ 24 - 1
drivers/net/macb.c

@@ -307,8 +307,31 @@ static void macb_tx(struct macb *bp)
 		(unsigned long)status);
 
 	if (status & MACB_BIT(UND)) {
+		int i;
 		printk(KERN_ERR "%s: TX underrun, resetting buffers\n",
-		       bp->dev->name);
+			bp->dev->name);
+
+		head = bp->tx_head;
+
+		/*Mark all the buffer as used to avoid sending a lost buffer*/
+		for (i = 0; i < TX_RING_SIZE; i++)
+			bp->tx_ring[i].ctrl = MACB_BIT(TX_USED);
+
+		/* free transmit buffer in upper layer*/
+		for (tail = bp->tx_tail; tail != head; tail = NEXT_TX(tail)) {
+			struct ring_info *rp = &bp->tx_skb[tail];
+			struct sk_buff *skb = rp->skb;
+
+			BUG_ON(skb == NULL);
+
+			rmb();
+
+			dma_unmap_single(&bp->pdev->dev, rp->mapping, skb->len,
+							 DMA_TO_DEVICE);
+			rp->skb = NULL;
+			dev_kfree_skb_irq(skb);
+		}
+
 		bp->tx_head = bp->tx_tail = 0;
 	}