[ 3.5.y.z extended stable ] Patch "via-rhine: Fix bugs in NAPI support." has been added to staging queue

[Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    via-rhine: Fix bugs in NAPI support.

to the linux-3.5.y-queue branch of the 3.5.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.5.y-queue

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.5.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Herton

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>From 525570db7ffbd38af14b234bee4f7cfa60c12270 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "David S. Miller" <davem at davemloft.net>
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2013 22:58:04 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] via-rhine: Fix bugs in NAPI support.

commit 559bcac35facfed49ab4f408e162971612dcfdf3 upstream.

1) rhine_tx() should use dev_kfree_skb() not dev_kfree_skb_irq()

2) rhine_slow_event_task's NAPI triggering logic is racey, it
   should just hit the interrupt mask register.  This is the
   same as commit 7dbb491878a2c51d372a8890fa45a8ff80358af1
   ("r8169: avoid NAPI scheduling delay.") made to fix the same
   problem in the r8169 driver.  From Francois Romieu.

Reported-by: Jamie Gloudon <jamie.gloudon at gmail.com>
Tested-by: Jamie Gloudon <jamie.gloudon at gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton.krzesinski at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/via/via-rhine.c |    8 ++------
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/via/via-rhine.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/via/via-rhine.c
index 0459c09..046526e0 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/via/via-rhine.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/via/via-rhine.c
@@ -1802,7 +1802,7 @@ static void rhine_tx(struct net_device *dev)
 					 rp->tx_skbuff[entry]->len,
 					 PCI_DMA_TODEVICE);
 		}
-		dev_kfree_skb_irq(rp->tx_skbuff[entry]);
+		dev_kfree_skb(rp->tx_skbuff[entry]);
 		rp->tx_skbuff[entry] = NULL;
 		entry = (++rp->dirty_tx) % TX_RING_SIZE;
 	}
@@ -2011,11 +2011,7 @@ static void rhine_slow_event_task(struct work_struct *work)
 	if (intr_status & IntrPCIErr)
 		netif_warn(rp, hw, dev, "PCI error\n");

-	napi_disable(&rp->napi);
-	rhine_irq_disable(rp);
-	/* Slow and safe. Consider __napi_schedule as a replacement ? */
-	napi_enable(&rp->napi);
-	napi_schedule(&rp->napi);
+	iowrite16(RHINE_EVENT & 0xffff, rp->base + IntrEnable);

 out_unlock:
 	mutex_unlock(&rp->task_lock);
--
1.7.9.5