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| author | david decotigny <decot@googlers.com> | 2012-08-24 17:22:53 +0000 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2012-08-30 13:04:57 -0400 |
| commit | 3f0a1b58ae1fb72dee348564d03f42cca2338ab8 (patch) | |
| tree | f79ac3ef59e592afa25b0a66bc0a287015555d0e /lib/nlattr.c | |
| parent | 1ff39eb66b6ba456995fa19185463d7753cd8798 (diff) | |
forcedeth: prevent TX timeouts after reboot
This complements patch "net-forcedeth: fix TX timeout caused by TX
pause on down link" which ensures that a lock-up sequence is not sent
to the NIC. Present patch ensures that if a NIC is already locked-up,
the driver will recover from it when initializing the device.
It does the equivalent of the following recovery sequence:
- write NVREG_TX_PAUSEFRAME_ENABLE_V1 to eth1's register
NvRegTxPauseFrame
- write NVREG_XMITCTL_START to eth1's register
NvRegTransmitterControl
- write 0 to eth1's register NvRegTransmitterControl
(this is at the heart of the "unbricking" sequence mentioned in patch
"net-forcedeth: fix TX timeout caused by TX pause on down link")
Tested:
- hardware is MCP55 device id 10de:0373 (rev a3), dual-port
- reboot a kernel without any of patches mentioned
- freeze the NIC (details on description for commit "net-forcedeth:
fix TX timeout caused by TX pause on down link")
- wait 5mn until ping hangs & TX timeout in dmesg
- reboot on kernel with present patch
- host is immediatly operational, no TX timeout
Signed-off-by: David Decotigny <decot@googlers.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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