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SubjectRe: Sun GEM card looses TX on x86 32bit PCI
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David,

I've been looking some more at what my changes did.... it might be best
to completely ignore them ;) I had no clue what I was doing!

Cheers,

Beezly

On Mon, 2002-03-11 at 21:11, Beezly wrote:
> Hi David,
>
> It seems I fubar'd. I recompiled the module and run it through the test
> again... no hang. It looks like I forgot to copy the new module into my
> /lib/modules/<blah>. Apologies for messing up there.
>
> Anyway... the new driver still drops packets after the initial RX
> overflow, so I had a poke around with it and I've seen some definate
> improvement by forcing the whole chip to reset when the RX overflows.
>
> My modifications to the driver are evil and I only intend them to be a
> test, but it helps to shed some extra light on what's going on.
>
> When the chip does a full reset I loose a whole load of packets, but I'm
> guessing this is normal :(
>
> Also, I can't remember where I read it, but the Extreme Summit 48 is
> supposed to support *receiving* the xon/xoff Pause stuff (I'm no expert
> in this area, so I could be talking complete twaddle!), no transmit
> capability though.
>
> Here's what I get out of the module when it resets (with my limit=5000
> mod);
>
> eth0: RX buffer overflowed - running rxmac_reset
> eth0: RX MAC resetting
> eth0: RX MAC *ONLY* reset
> eth0: RX MAC reset ok?
> eth0: RX MAC will not disable, resetting whole chip.
> eth0: PCS AutoNEG complete.
> eth0: PCS link is now up.
>
> Without the limit=5000, it appears that the module detects the RX
> section is "un-hung" when it isn't.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Beezly
>
> On Mon, 2002-03-11 at 19:02, David S. Miller wrote:
> > From: Beezly <beezly@beezly.org.uk>
> > Date: 11 Mar 2002 18:35:01 +0000
> >
> > Sorry it took so long for me to get back to you. Sadly it also hung with
> > this patch ;) I was unable to get an oops out of it (machine was
> > completely hosed and in X so I couldn't even note the oops on paper :(
> > ).
> >
> > So rerun the test not under X please?
>
> ----
>

> --- sungem.c Mon Mar 11 20:37:57 2002
> +++ sungem.c.testing Mon Mar 11 20:31:12 2002
> @@ -302,14 +302,23 @@
> u64 desc_dma;
> u32 val;
>
> + printk(KERN_ERR "%s: RX MAC resetting\n", dev->name);
> /* First, reset MAC RX. */
> writel(gp->mac_rx_cfg & ~MAC_RXCFG_ENAB,
> gp->regs + MAC_RXCFG);
> + printk(KERN_ERR "%s: RX MAC *ONLY* reset\n", dev->name);
> +
> for (limit = 0; limit < 5000; limit++) {
> - if (!(readl(gp->regs + MAC_RXCFG) & MAC_RXCFG_ENAB))
> + if (!(readl(gp->regs + MAC_RXCFG) & MAC_RXCFG_ENAB)) {
> + printk(KERN_ERR "%s: RX MAC reset ok?\n", dev->name);
> break;
> + }
> udelay(10);
> }
> +
> + /* RX MAC reset doesn't appear to work so I force a whole reset */
> + limit = 5000;
> +
> if (limit == 5000) {
> printk(KERN_ERR "%s: RX MAC will not disable, resetting whole "
> "chip.\n", dev->name);
> @@ -323,6 +332,9 @@
> break;
> udelay(10);
> }
> +
> + limit=5000;
> +
> if (limit == 5000) {
> printk(KERN_ERR "%s: RX DMA will not disable, resetting whole "
> "chip.\n", dev->name);
> @@ -399,6 +411,8 @@
> if (rxmac_stat & MAC_RXSTAT_OFLW) {
> gp->net_stats.rx_over_errors++;
> gp->net_stats.rx_fifo_errors++;
> + printk(KERN_DEBUG "%s: RX buffer overflowed - running rxmac_reset\n",
> + gp->dev->name);
>
> ret = gem_rxmac_reset(gp);
> }

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