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authorMichael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>2006-08-07 21:46:02 -0700
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2006-08-07 21:46:02 -0700
commit1b2a720506ccf7c30baaeda5d990c29b31e21726 (patch)
tree5990f56e364077c83563566ed64beae95b855a9f /drivers/net/tg3.h
parentbd37a088596ccdb2b2dd3299e25e333bca7a9a34 (diff)
[TG3]: Fix tx race condition
Fix a subtle race condition between tg3_start_xmit() and tg3_tx() discovered by Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>: CPU0 CPU1 tg3_start_xmit() if (tx_ring_full) { tx_lock tg3_tx() if (!netif_queue_stopped) netif_stop_queue() if (!tx_ring_full) update_tx_ring netif_wake_queue() tx_unlock } Even though tx_ring is updated before the if statement in tg3_tx() in program order, it can be re-ordered by the CPU as shown above. This scenario can cause the tx queue to be stopped forever if tg3_tx() has just freed up the entire tx_ring. The possibility of this happening should be very rare though. The following changes are made: 1. Add memory barrier to fix the above race condition. 2. Eliminate the private tx_lock altogether and rely solely on netif_tx_lock. This eliminates one spinlock in tg3_start_xmit() when the ring is full. 3. Because of 2, use netif_tx_lock in tg3_tx() before calling netif_wake_queue(). 4. Change TX_BUFFS_AVAIL to an inline function with a memory barrier. Herbert and David suggested using the memory barrier instead of volatile. 5. Check for the full wake queue condition before getting netif_tx_lock in tg3_tx(). This reduces the number of unnecessary spinlocks when the tx ring is full in a steady-state condition. 6. Update version to 3.65. Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com> Acked-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/tg3.h')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/tg3.h8
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/tg3.h b/drivers/net/tg3.h
index ba2c98711c88..3ecf356cfb08 100644
--- a/drivers/net/tg3.h
+++ b/drivers/net/tg3.h
@@ -2079,9 +2079,9 @@ struct tg3 {
* lock: Held during reset, PHY access, timer, and when
* updating tg3_flags and tg3_flags2.
*
- * tx_lock: Held during tg3_start_xmit and tg3_tx only
- * when calling netif_[start|stop]_queue.
- * tg3_start_xmit is protected by netif_tx_lock.
+ * netif_tx_lock: Held during tg3_start_xmit. tg3_tx holds
+ * netif_tx_lock when it needs to call
+ * netif_wake_queue.
*
* Both of these locks are to be held with BH safety.
*
@@ -2118,8 +2118,6 @@ struct tg3 {
u32 tx_cons;
u32 tx_pending;
- spinlock_t tx_lock;
-
struct tg3_tx_buffer_desc *tx_ring;
struct tx_ring_info *tx_buffers;
dma_addr_t tx_desc_mapping;