atl1c uses netdev_alloc_skb to refill its rx dma ring, but that call makes no
guarantees about the suitability of the memory for use in DMA. As a result
we've gotten reports of atl1c drivers occasionally hanging and needing to be
reset:
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54021
Fix this by modifying the call to use the internal version __netdev_alloc_skb,
where you can set the gfp_mask explicitly to include GFP_DMA.
Tested by two reporters in the above bug, who have the hardware to validate it.
Both report immediate cessation of the problem with this patch
Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <[email protected]>
CC: Jay Cliburn <[email protected]>
CC: "David S. Miller" <[email protected]>
CC: [email protected]
Tested-by: Luis Henriques <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Vincent Alquier <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
while (next_info->flags & ATL1C_BUFFER_FREE) {
rfd_desc = ATL1C_RFD_DESC(rfd_ring, rfd_next_to_use);
- skb = netdev_alloc_skb(adapter->netdev, adapter->rx_buffer_len);
+ skb = __netdev_alloc_skb(adapter->netdev, adapter->rx_buffer_len, GFP_ATOMIC|GFP_DMA);
if (unlikely(!skb)) {
if (netif_msg_rx_err(adapter))
dev_warn(&pdev->dev, "alloc rx buffer failed\n");