[PATCH 3/3] net: nps_enet: bug fix - handle lost tx interrupts

From: Noam Camus
Date: Tue Apr 26 2016 - 03:52:13 EST


From: Elad Kanfi <eladkan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

The tx interrupt is of edge type, and in case such interrupt is triggered
while it is masked it will not be handled even after tx interrupts are
re-enabled in the end of NAPI poll.
This will cause tx network to stop in the following scenario:
* Rx is being handled, hence interrupts are masked.
* Tx interrupt is triggered after checking if there is some tx to handle
and before re-enabling the interrupts.
In this situation only rx transaction will release tx requests.

In order to handle the tx that was missed( if there was one ),
a NAPI reschdule was added after enabling the interrupts.

Signed-off-by: Elad Kanfi <eladkan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Noam Camus <noamca@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/ezchip/nps_enet.c | 12 ++++++++++++
1 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/ezchip/nps_enet.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/ezchip/nps_enet.c
index 8cf3cde..5eaede1 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/ezchip/nps_enet.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/ezchip/nps_enet.c
@@ -199,6 +199,18 @@ static int nps_enet_poll(struct napi_struct *napi, int budget)

nps_enet_reg_set(priv, NPS_ENET_REG_BUF_INT_ENABLE,
buf_int_enable_value);
+
+ /* in case we will get a tx interrupt while interrupts
+ * are masked, we will lose it since the tx is edge interrupt.
+ * specifically, while executing the code section above,
+ * between nps_enet_tx_handler and the interrupts enable, all
+ * tx requests will be stuck until we will get an rx interrupt.
+ * the two code lines below will solve this situation by
+ * re-adding ourselves to the poll list.
+ */
+
+ if (nps_enet_is_tx_pending(priv))
+ napi_reschedule(napi);
}

return work_done;
--
1.7.1