This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
gianfar: fix a flooded alignment reports because of padding issue.
to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...
The filename of the patch is: gianfar-fix-a-flooded-alignment-reports-because-of-padding-issue.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.
From foo@baz Fri Feb 23 11:58:50 CET 2018
From: Zumeng Chen zumeng.chen@gmail.com Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2017 11:22:02 +0800 Subject: gianfar: fix a flooded alignment reports because of padding issue.
From: Zumeng Chen zumeng.chen@gmail.com
[ Upstream commit 58117672943734715bbe7565ac9f062effa524f0 ]
According to LS1021A RM, the value of PAL can be set so that the start of the IP header in the receive data buffer is aligned to a 32-bit boundary. Normally, setting PAL = 2 provides minimal padding to ensure such alignment of the IP header.
However every incoming packet's 8-byte time stamp will be inserted into the packet data buffer as padding alignment bytes when hardware time stamping is enabled.
So we set the padding 8+2 here to avoid the flooded alignment faults:
root@128:~# cat /proc/cpu/alignment User: 0 System: 17539 (inet_gro_receive+0x114/0x2c0) Skipped: 0 Half: 0 Word: 0 DWord: 0 Multi: 17539 User faults: 2 (fixup)
Also shown when exception report enablement
CPU: 0 PID: 161 Comm: irq/66-eth1_g0_ Not tainted 4.1.21-rt13-WR8.0.0.0_preempt-rt #16 Hardware name: Freescale LS1021A [<8001b420>] (unwind_backtrace) from [<8001476c>] (show_stack+0x20/0x24) [<8001476c>] (show_stack) from [<807cfb48>] (dump_stack+0x94/0xac) [<807cfb48>] (dump_stack) from [<80025d70>] (do_alignment+0x720/0x958) [<80025d70>] (do_alignment) from [<80009224>] (do_DataAbort+0x40/0xbc) [<80009224>] (do_DataAbort) from [<80015398>] (__dabt_svc+0x38/0x60) Exception stack(0x86ad1cc0 to 0x86ad1d08) 1cc0: f9b3e080 86b3d072 2d78d287 00000000 866816c0 86b3d05e 86e785d0 00000000 1ce0: 00000011 0000000e 80840ab0 86ad1d3c 86ad1d08 86ad1d08 806d7fc0 806d806c 1d00: 40070013 ffffffff [<80015398>] (__dabt_svc) from [<806d806c>] (inet_gro_receive+0x114/0x2c0) [<806d806c>] (inet_gro_receive) from [<80660eec>] (dev_gro_receive+0x21c/0x3c0) [<80660eec>] (dev_gro_receive) from [<8066133c>] (napi_gro_receive+0x44/0x17c) [<8066133c>] (napi_gro_receive) from [<804f0538>] (gfar_clean_rx_ring+0x39c/0x7d4) [<804f0538>] (gfar_clean_rx_ring) from [<804f0bf4>] (gfar_poll_rx_sq+0x58/0xe0) [<804f0bf4>] (gfar_poll_rx_sq) from [<80660b10>] (net_rx_action+0x27c/0x43c) [<80660b10>] (net_rx_action) from [<80033638>] (do_current_softirqs+0x1e0/0x3dc) [<80033638>] (do_current_softirqs) from [<800338c4>] (__local_bh_enable+0x90/0xa8) [<800338c4>] (__local_bh_enable) from [<8008025c>] (irq_forced_thread_fn+0x70/0x84) [<8008025c>] (irq_forced_thread_fn) from [<800805e8>] (irq_thread+0x16c/0x244) [<800805e8>] (irq_thread) from [<8004e490>] (kthread+0xe8/0x104) [<8004e490>] (kthread) from [<8000fda8>] (ret_from_fork+0x14/0x2c)
Signed-off-by: Zumeng Chen zumeng.chen@gmail.com Signed-off-by: David S. Miller davem@davemloft.net Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin alexander.levin@microsoft.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar.c | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar.c @@ -1375,9 +1375,11 @@ static int gfar_probe(struct platform_de
gfar_init_addr_hash_table(priv);
- /* Insert receive time stamps into padding alignment bytes */ + /* Insert receive time stamps into padding alignment bytes, and + * plus 2 bytes padding to ensure the cpu alignment. + */ if (priv->device_flags & FSL_GIANFAR_DEV_HAS_TIMER) - priv->padding = 8; + priv->padding = 8 + DEFAULT_PADDING;
if (dev->features & NETIF_F_IP_CSUM || priv->device_flags & FSL_GIANFAR_DEV_HAS_TIMER)
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from zumeng.chen@gmail.com are
queue-4.4/gianfar-fix-a-flooded-alignment-reports-because-of-padding-issue.patch