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From: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
To: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Cc: Ian Jeffray <ian@emobix.co.uk>, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: r8712u driver - on ARM
Date: Sat, 1 Oct 2011 20:54:42 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201110012054.42461.chunkeey@googlemail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E87609E.5030002@lwfinger.net>

On Saturday 01 October 2011 20:49:02 Larry Finger wrote:
> On 10/01/2011 01:10 PM, Ian Jeffray wrote:
> > On 01/10/2011 19:01, Christian Lamparter wrote:
> >> On Saturday 01 October 2011 19:52:37 Larry Finger wrote:
> >>> On 10/01/2011 11:22 AM, Christian Lamparter wrote:
> >>>> On Saturday 01 October 2011 18:01:08 Larry Finger wrote:
> >>>>> Ian,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Most of the skb assignments in r8712u are aligned OK and most aligned on
> >>>>> 512-byte boundaries, but there was one that had the minimal offset of 14
> >>>>> bytes.
> >>>>> The attached patch should fix it. Does it help?
> >>>> Interesting, this "patch" goes in a completely different direction.
> >>>> Can you tell me where the driver aligns the frames which will be
> >>>> xmitted by the device [i.e.: which
> 
> is passed to the usb subsystem
> >>>> by usb_submit_urb]? Because that's what actually matters.
> >>>
> >>> In this driver, all references are to _usb_submit_urb(), which is defined to be
> >>> usb_submit_urb() in one of the header files. That made it easy to insert a test
> >>> for misalignment of the DMA buffer as follows:
> >
> > <snip>
> >
> >>> +static inline int _usb_submit_urb(struct urb *urb, gfp_t mem_flags)
> >>> +{
> >>> + if (urb->transfer_dma& 3) {
> >
> > <snip>
> >
> >> I think you need to check transfer_buffer and not transfer_dma.
> >
> > I tried checking both transfer_buffer and transfer_dma and all
> > were always word aligned. (At least on Blackfin)
 
> The same with x86_64.
Sure,  x86_64 and powerpc set in system.h

grep NET_IP_ALIGN * -R

microblaze/include/asm/system.h:#define NET_IP_ALIGN    2
powerpc/include/asm/system.h:#define NET_IP_ALIGN       0
x86/include/asm/system.h:#define NET_IP_ALIGN   0

well, it looks like Realtek did a better job then and unfortunately
your problem is related to something else.

Regards,
	Chr

  reply	other threads:[~2011-10-01 18:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-27 15:36 r8712u driver - on ARM Ian Jeffray
2011-09-27 16:24 ` Larry Finger
2011-09-30 18:39   ` Ian Jeffray
2011-09-30 19:06     ` Christian Lamparter
2011-10-01  0:51       ` Larry Finger
2011-10-01 16:01       ` Larry Finger
2011-10-01 16:22         ` Christian Lamparter
2011-10-01 17:52           ` Larry Finger
2011-10-01 18:01             ` Christian Lamparter
2011-10-01 18:10               ` Ian Jeffray
2011-10-01 18:49                 ` Larry Finger
2011-10-01 18:54                   ` Christian Lamparter [this message]
2011-10-01 19:24                     ` Larry Finger
2011-10-01 23:24                       ` Ian Jeffray
2011-10-12 15:30                         ` Ian Jeffray
2011-10-12 17:28                           ` Larry Finger
2011-10-01 17:00         ` Ian Jeffray

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