[PATCH 22/28] sgiseeq: convert from dma_cache_sync to dma_sync_single_for_device

Thomas Bogendoerfer tsbogend at alpha.franken.de
Wed Sep 2 23:38:09 CEST 2020


On Tue, Sep 01, 2020 at 07:38:10PM +0200, Thomas Bogendoerfer wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 01, 2020 at 07:16:27PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > Well, if IP22 doesn't speculate (which I'm pretty sure is the case),
> > dma_sync_single_for_cpu should indeeed be a no-op.  But then there
> > also shouldn't be anything in the cache, as the previous
> > dma_sync_single_for_device should have invalidated it.  So it seems like
> > we are missing one (or more) ownership transfers to the device.  I'll
> > try to look at the the ownership management in a little more detail
> > tomorrow.
> 
> this is the problem:
> 
>        /* Always check for received packets. */
>         sgiseeq_rx(dev, sp, hregs, sregs);
> 
> so the driver will look at the rx descriptor on every interrupt, so
> we cache the rx descriptor on the first interrupt and if there was
> $no rx packet, we will only see it, if cache line gets flushed for
> some other reason. kick_tx() does a busy loop checking tx descriptors,
> with just sync_desc_cpu...

the patch below fixes the problem.

Thomas.


diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/seeq/sgiseeq.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/seeq/sgiseeq.c
index 8507ff242014..876e3700a0e4 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/seeq/sgiseeq.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/seeq/sgiseeq.c
@@ -112,14 +112,18 @@ struct sgiseeq_private {
 
 static inline void dma_sync_desc_cpu(struct net_device *dev, void *addr)
 {
-       dma_cache_sync(dev->dev.parent, addr, sizeof(struct sgiseeq_rx_desc),
-                      DMA_FROM_DEVICE);
+       struct sgiseeq_private *sp = netdev_priv(dev);
+
+       dma_sync_single_for_device(dev->dev.parent, VIRT_TO_DMA(sp, addr),
+                       sizeof(struct sgiseeq_rx_desc), DMA_FROM_DEVICE);
 }
 
 static inline void dma_sync_desc_dev(struct net_device *dev, void *addr)
 {
-       dma_cache_sync(dev->dev.parent, addr, sizeof(struct sgiseeq_rx_desc),
-                      DMA_TO_DEVICE);
+       struct sgiseeq_private *sp = netdev_priv(dev);
+
+       dma_sync_single_for_device(dev->dev.parent, VIRT_TO_DMA(sp, addr),
+                       sizeof(struct sgiseeq_rx_desc), DMA_TO_DEVICE);
 }
 
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