Re: [PATCH] tg3: Dont dump registers if interface not ready.

[Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@canonical.com>]

Joe Jin <joe.jin@oracle.com> writes:

Hi,

> Hi Matt,
>
> Sorry for late response, after apply your changes, driver did not dumped
> registers info as well, but still hit tg3_stop_block timed out as below:
>
...
>
> Any suggestion?

I was wondering if there any progress with this patch.  Is this
stalled, or has it been dropped?

Cheers,
-- 
Luis

>
> Thanks,
> Joe
>
> On 10/05/11 10:14, Matt Carlson wrote:
>> On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 11:50:01PM -0700, Xiao Jiang wrote:
>>> Joe Jin wrote:
>>>> When bootup the server with BCM5704 Gigabit Ethernet get below warning:
>>>>
>>>> tg3 0000:03:01.0: eth0: DMA Status error.  Resetting chip.
>>>> <Registers state of device>
>>>> tg3 0000:03:01.0: eth0: 0: Host status block [00000007:00000002:(0000:0000:0000):(0000:0000)]
>>>> tg3 0000:03:01.0: eth0: 0: NAPI info [00000001:00000002:(0000:0000:01ff):0000:(00c8:0000:0000:0000)]
>>>> tg3 0000:03:01.0: eth0: Link is up at 1000 Mbps, full duplex
>>>> tg3 0000:03:01.0: eth0: Flow control is on for TX and on for RX
>>>> tg3 0000:03:01.0: tg3_stop_block timed out, ofs=4800 enable_bit=2
>>>> tg3 0000:03:01.0: eth0: Link is down
>>>> tg3 0000:03:01.0: eth0: Link is up at 1000 Mbps, full duplex
>>>> tg3 0000:03:01.0: eth0: Flow control is on for TX and on for RX
>>>>
>>>> If device not ready, then would not dump registers info.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Joe Jin <joe.jin@oracle.com>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Guru Anbalagane <guru.anbalagane@oracle.com>
>>>> Reported-by: Gurudas Pai <gurudas.pai@oracle.com>
>>>> Cc: Matt Carlson <mcarlson@broadcom.com>
>>>> Cc: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>
>>>> ---
>>>>  drivers/net/tg3.c |   11 +++++++++--
>>>>   
>>> Maybe this one should based on net-next tree too, the tg3.c
>>> is lived below ./drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/ in that tree.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Xiao Jiang
>>>>  1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/drivers/net/tg3.c b/drivers/net/tg3.c
>>>> index 4a1374d..d79d344 100644
>>>> --- a/drivers/net/tg3.c
>>>> +++ b/drivers/net/tg3.c
>>>> @@ -5475,10 +5475,15 @@ static void tg3_process_error(struct tg3 *tp)
>>>>  {
>>>>  	u32 val;
>>>>  	bool real_error = false;
>>>> +	bool dump = true;
>>>>  
>>>>  	if (tg3_flag(tp, ERROR_PROCESSED))
>>>>  		return;
>>>>  
>>>> +	/* If interface not ready then dont dump error */
>>>> +	if (!netif_carrier_ok(tp->dev))
>>>> +		dump = false;
>> 
>> Would you still experience the problem if you did the following instead
>> of the above link check?
>> 
>> 		if (tg3_flag(tp, INIT_COMPLETE))
>> 			dump = false;
>> 
>>>>  	/* Check Flow Attention register */
>>>>  	val = tr32(HOSTCC_FLOW_ATTN);
>>>>  	if (val & ~HOSTCC_FLOW_ATTN_MBUF_LWM) {
>>>> @@ -5492,14 +5497,16 @@ static void tg3_process_error(struct tg3 *tp)
>>>>  	}
>>>>  
>>>>  	if (tr32(RDMAC_STATUS) || tr32(WDMAC_STATUS)) {
>>>> -		netdev_err(tp->dev, "DMA Status error.  Resetting chip.\n");
>>>> +		if (dump)
>>>> +			netdev_err(tp->dev, "DMA Status error.  Resetting chip.\n");
>>>>  		real_error = true;
>>>>  	}
>>>>  
>>>>  	if (!real_error)
>>>>  		return;
>>>>  
>>>> -	tg3_dump_state(tp);
>>>> +	if (dump)
>>>> +		tg3_dump_state(tp);
>>>>  
>>>>  	tg3_flag_set(tp, ERROR_PROCESSED);
>>>>  	schedule_work(&tp->reset_task);
>>>>   
>>>
>>>
>>