kernel/linux.git/drivers/net/ethernet/amd, branch v4.3.1

amd-xgbe: Fix race between access of desc and desc index

2015-10-28T02:49:22+00:00

During Tx cleanup it's still possible for the descriptor data to be read ahead of the descriptor index. A memory barrier is required between the read of the descriptor index and the start of the Tx cleanup loop. This allows a change to a lighter-weight barrier in the Tx transmit routine just before updating the current descriptor index. Since the memory barrier does result in extra overhead on arm64, keep the previous change to not chase the current descriptor value. This prevents the execution of the barrier for each loop performed. Suggested-by: Alexander Duyck Signed-off-by: Tom Lendacky Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

amd-xgbe: Use wmb before updating current descriptor count

2015-10-23T09:59:04+00:00

The code currently uses the lightweight dma_wmb barrier before updating the current descriptor count. Under heavy load, the Tx cleanup routine was seeing the updated current descriptor count before the updated descriptor information. As a result, the Tx descriptor was being cleaned up before it was used because it was not "owned" by the hardware yet, resulting in a Tx queue hang. Using the wmb barrier insures that the descriptor is updated before the descriptor counter preventing the Tx queue hang. For extra insurance, the Tx cleanup routine is changed to grab the current decriptor count on entry and uses that initial value in the processing loop rather than trying to chase the current value. Signed-off-by: Tom Lendacky Tested-by: Christoffer Dall Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

amd-xgbe: Check for successful buffer allocation before use

2015-10-06T06:30:51+00:00

The kasprintf function can return NULL if the allocation fails. Check for successful allocation before attempting to use the returned buffer. Signed-off-by: Tom Lendacky Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

amd-xgbe: fix potential memory leak in xgbe-debugfs

2015-10-05T10:05:41+00:00

Added kfree() to avoid the memory leak when debugfs_create_dir() fails. Signed-off-by: Geliang Tang Acked-by: Tom Lendacky Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

treewide: fix typos in comment blocks

2015-08-07T12:46:24+00:00

Looks like the word "contiguous" is often mistyped. Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina

amd-xgbe: Fix DMA API debug warning

2015-07-08T22:57:14+00:00

When running a kernel configured with CONFIG_DMA_API_DEBUG=y a warning is issued: DMA-API: device driver tries to sync DMA memory it has not allocated This warning is the result of mapping the full range of the Rx buffer pages allocated and then performing a dma_sync_single_for_cpu against a calculated DMA address. The proper thing to do is to use the dma_sync_single_range_for_cpu with a base DMA address and an offset. Reported-by: Kim Phillips Signed-off-by: Tom Lendacky Tested-by: Kim Phillips Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

amd-xgbe: Add the __GFP_NOWARN flag to Rx buffer allocation

2015-06-29T16:27:03+00:00

When allocating Rx related buffers, alloc_pages is called using an order number that is decreased until successful. A system under stress can experience failures during this allocation process resulting in a warning being issued. This message can be of concern to end users even though the failure is not fatal. Since the failure is not fatal and can occur multiple times, the driver should include the __GFP_NOWARN flag to suppress the warning message from being issued. Signed-off-by: Tom Lendacky Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next

2015-06-24T23:49:49+00:00

Pull networking updates from David Miller: 1) Add TX fast path in mac80211, from Johannes Berg. 2) Add TSO/GRO support to ibmveth, from Thomas Falcon 3) Move away from cached routes in ipv6, just like ipv4, from Martin KaFai Lau. 4) Lots of new rhashtable tests, from Thomas Graf. 5) Run ingress qdisc lockless, from Alexei Starovoitov. 6) Allow servers to fetch TCP packet headers for SYN packets of new connections, for fingerprinting. From Eric Dumazet. 7) Add mode parameter to pktgen, for testing receive. From Alexei Starovoitov. 8) Cache access optimizations via simplifications of build_skb(), from Alexander Duyck. 9) Move page frag allocator under mm/, also from Alexander. 10) Add xmit_more support to hv_netvsc, from KY Srinivasan. 11) Add a counter guard in case we try to perform endless reclassify loops in the packet scheduler. 12) Extern flow dissector to be programmable and use it in new "Flower" classifier. From Jiri Pirko. 13) AF_PACKET fanout rollover fixes, performance improvements, and new statistics. From Willem de Bruijn. 14) Add netdev driver for GENEVE tunnels, from John W Linville. 15) Add ingress netfilter hooks and filtering, from Pablo Neira Ayuso. 16) Fix handling of epoll edge triggers in TCP, from Eric Dumazet. 17) Add an ECN retry fallback for the initial TCP handshake, from Daniel Borkmann. 18) Add tail call support to BPF, from Alexei Starovoitov. 19) Add several pktgen helper scripts, from Jesper Dangaard Brouer. 20) Add zerocopy support to AF_UNIX, from Hannes Frederic Sowa. 21) Favor even port numbers for allocation to connect() requests, and odd port numbers for bind(0), in an effort to help avoid ip_local_port_range exhaustion. From Eric Dumazet. 22) Add Cavium ThunderX driver, from Sunil Goutham. 23) Allow bpf programs to access skb_iif and dev->ifindex SKB metadata, from Alexei Starovoitov. 24) Add support for T6 chips in cxgb4vf driver, from Hariprasad Shenai. 25) Double TCP Small Queues default to 256K to accomodate situations like the XEN driver and wireless aggregation. From Wei Liu. 26) Add more entropy inputs to flow dissector, from Tom Herbert. 27) Add CDG congestion control algorithm to TCP, from Kenneth Klette Jonassen. 28) Convert ipset over to RCU locking, from Jozsef Kadlecsik. 29) Track and act upon link status of ipv4 route nexthops, from Andy Gospodarek. * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1670 commits) bridge: vlan: flush the dynamically learned entries on port vlan delete bridge: multicast: add a comment to br_port_state_selection about blocking state net: inet_diag: export IPV6_V6ONLY sockopt stmmac: troubleshoot unexpected bits in des0 & des1 net: ipv4 sysctl option to ignore routes when nexthop link is down net: track link-status of ipv4 nexthops net: switchdev: ignore unsupported bridge flags net: Cavium: Fix MAC address setting in shutdown state drivers: net: xgene: fix for ACPI support without ACPI ip: report the original address of ICMP messages net/mlx5e: Prefetch skb data on RX net/mlx5e: Pop cq outside mlx5e_get_cqe net/mlx5e: Remove mlx5e_cq.sqrq back-pointer net/mlx5e: Remove extra spaces net/mlx5e: Avoid TX CQE generation if more xmit packets expected net/mlx5e: Avoid redundant dev_kfree_skb() upon NOP completion net/mlx5e: Remove re-assignment of wq type in mlx5e_enable_rq() net/mlx5e: Use skb_shinfo(skb)->gso_segs rather than counting them net/mlx5e: Static mapping of netdev priv resources to/from netdev TX queues net/mlx4_en: Use HW counters for rx/tx bytes/packets in PF device ...

drivers/net: remove all references to obsolete Ethernet-HOWTO

2015-06-23T13:50:35+00:00

This howto made sense in the 1990s when users had to manually configure ISA cards with jumpers or vendor utilities, but with the implementation of PCI it became increasingly less and less relevant, to the point where it has been well over a decade since I last updated it. And there is no value in anyone else taking over updating it either. However the references to it continue to spread as boiler plate text from one Kconfig file into the next. We are not doing end users any favours by pointing them at this old document, so lets kill it with fire, once and for all, to hopefully stop any further spread. No code is changed in this commit, just Kconfig help text. Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

amd-xgbe: Unify coherency checking logic with device_dma_is_coherent()

2015-06-15T12:40:49+00:00

Currently, amd-xgbe driver has separate logic to determine device coherency for DT vs. ACPI. This patch simplifies the code with a call to device_dma_is_coherent(). Signed-off-by: Tom Lendacky Signed-off-by: Suravee Suthikulpanit Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki