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authorNeil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>2007-04-20 09:54:58 -0400
committerJeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>2007-04-24 12:43:07 -0400
commitb748d9e3b80dc7e6ce6bf7399f57964b99a4104c (patch)
tree887909e1f735bb444ef0e3e370f34401fa6eee02 /drivers
parentd91c088b39e3c66d309938de858775bb90fd1ead (diff)
sis900: Allocate rx replacement buffer before rx operation
The sis900 driver appears to have a bug in which the receive routine passes the skbuff holding the received frame to the network stack before refilling the buffer in the rx ring. If a new skbuff cannot be allocated, the driver simply leaves a hole in the rx ring, which causes the driver to stop receiving frames and become non-recoverable without an rmmod/insmod according to reporters. This patch reverses that order, attempting to allocate a replacement buffer first, and receiving the new frame only if one can be allocated. If no skbuff can be allocated, the current skbuf in the rx ring is recycled, dropping the current frame, but keeping the NIC operational. Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/sis900.c44
1 files changed, 20 insertions, 24 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/sis900.c b/drivers/net/sis900.c
index b3750f28427..b2a3b19d773 100644
--- a/drivers/net/sis900.c
+++ b/drivers/net/sis900.c
@@ -1755,6 +1755,24 @@ static int sis900_rx(struct net_device *net_dev)
} else {
struct sk_buff * skb;
+ pci_unmap_single(sis_priv->pci_dev,
+ sis_priv->rx_ring[entry].bufptr, RX_BUF_SIZE,
+ PCI_DMA_FROMDEVICE);
+
+ /* refill the Rx buffer, what if there is not enought
+ * memory for new socket buffer ?? */
+ if ((skb = dev_alloc_skb(RX_BUF_SIZE)) == NULL) {
+ /*
+ * Not enough memory to refill the buffer
+ * so we need to recycle the old one so
+ * as to avoid creating a memory hole
+ * in the rx ring
+ */
+ skb = sis_priv->rx_skbuff[entry];
+ sis_priv->stats.rx_dropped++;
+ goto refill_rx_ring;
+ }
+
/* This situation should never happen, but due to
some unknow bugs, it is possible that
we are working on NULL sk_buff :-( */
@@ -1768,9 +1786,6 @@ static int sis900_rx(struct net_device *net_dev)
break;
}
- pci_unmap_single(sis_priv->pci_dev,
- sis_priv->rx_ring[entry].bufptr, RX_BUF_SIZE,
- PCI_DMA_FROMDEVICE);
/* give the socket buffer to upper layers */
skb = sis_priv->rx_skbuff[entry];
skb_put(skb, rx_size);
@@ -1783,33 +1798,14 @@ static int sis900_rx(struct net_device *net_dev)
net_dev->last_rx = jiffies;
sis_priv->stats.rx_bytes += rx_size;
sis_priv->stats.rx_packets++;
-
- /* refill the Rx buffer, what if there is not enought
- * memory for new socket buffer ?? */
- if ((skb = dev_alloc_skb(RX_BUF_SIZE)) == NULL) {
- /* not enough memory for skbuff, this makes a
- * "hole" on the buffer ring, it is not clear
- * how the hardware will react to this kind
- * of degenerated buffer */
- if (netif_msg_rx_status(sis_priv))
- printk(KERN_INFO "%s: Memory squeeze,"
- "deferring packet.\n",
- net_dev->name);
- sis_priv->rx_skbuff[entry] = NULL;
- /* reset buffer descriptor state */
- sis_priv->rx_ring[entry].cmdsts = 0;
- sis_priv->rx_ring[entry].bufptr = 0;
- sis_priv->stats.rx_dropped++;
- sis_priv->cur_rx++;
- break;
- }
+ sis_priv->dirty_rx++;
+refill_rx_ring:
skb->dev = net_dev;
sis_priv->rx_skbuff[entry] = skb;
sis_priv->rx_ring[entry].cmdsts = RX_BUF_SIZE;
sis_priv->rx_ring[entry].bufptr =
pci_map_single(sis_priv->pci_dev, skb->data,
RX_BUF_SIZE, PCI_DMA_FROMDEVICE);
- sis_priv->dirty_rx++;
}
sis_priv->cur_rx++;
entry = sis_priv->cur_rx % NUM_RX_DESC;