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sky2: align IP header on Rx if possible

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The sky2 driver was not aligning the IP header on receive buffers.
This workaround is only needed on hardware with broken FIFO, newer chips
without FIFO can just DMA to unaligned address.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
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Stephen Hemminger 2007-11-28 14:27:03 -08:00 committed by David S. Miller
parent 5ac5d61632
commit f03b865491
1 changed files with 20 additions and 13 deletions
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drivers/net/sky2.c
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@ -64,7 +64,6 @@
#define RX_LE_BYTES (RX_LE_SIZE*sizeof(struct sky2_rx_le))
#define RX_MAX_PENDING (RX_LE_SIZE/6 - 2)
#define RX_DEF_PENDING RX_MAX_PENDING
#define RX_SKB_ALIGN 8
#define TX_RING_SIZE 512
#define TX_DEF_PENDING (TX_RING_SIZE - 1)
@ -1174,24 +1173,32 @@ static void sky2_vlan_rx_register(struct net_device *dev, struct vlan_group *grp
/*
* Allocate an skb for receiving. If the MTU is large enough
* make the skb non-linear with a fragment list of pages.
*
* It appears the hardware has a bug in the FIFO logic that
* cause it to hang if the FIFO gets overrun and the receive buffer
* is not 64 byte aligned. The buffer returned from netdev_alloc_skb is
* aligned except if slab debugging is enabled.
*/
static struct sk_buff *sky2_rx_alloc(struct sky2_port *sky2)
{
struct sk_buff *skb;
unsigned long p;
int i;
skb = netdev_alloc_skb(sky2->netdev, sky2->rx_data_size + RX_SKB_ALIGN);
if (!skb)
goto nomem;
p = (unsigned long) skb->data;
skb_reserve(skb, ALIGN(p, RX_SKB_ALIGN) - p);
if (sky2->hw->flags & SKY2_HW_FIFO_HANG_CHECK) {
unsigned char *start;
/*
* Workaround for a bug in FIFO that cause hang
* if the FIFO if the receive buffer is not 64 byte aligned.
* The buffer returned from netdev_alloc_skb is
* aligned except if slab debugging is enabled.
*/
skb = netdev_alloc_skb(sky2->netdev, sky2->rx_data_size + 8);
if (!skb)
goto nomem;
start = PTR_ALIGN(skb->data, 8);
skb_reserve(skb, start - skb->data);
} else {
skb = netdev_alloc_skb(sky2->netdev,
sky2->rx_data_size + NET_IP_ALIGN);
if (!skb)
goto nomem;
skb_reserve(skb, NET_IP_ALIGN);
}
for (i = 0; i < sky2->rx_nfrags; i++) {
struct page *page = alloc_page(GFP_ATOMIC);