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* [net] igbvf: fix divide by zero
@ 2012-06-30 10:23 Jeff Kirsher
  2012-07-01  0:41 ` David Miller
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Jeff Kirsher @ 2012-06-30 10:23 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: davem
  Cc: Mitch A Williams, netdev, gospo, sassmann, stable, daahern,
	Jeff Kirsher

From: Mitch A Williams <mitch.a.williams@intel.com>

Using ethtool -C ethX rx-usecs 0 crashes with a divide by zero.
Refactor this function to fix this issue and make it more clear
what the intent of each conditional is. Add comment regarding
using a setting of zero.

CC: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> [3.3+]
CC: David Ahern <daahern@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Mitch Williams <mitch.a.williams@intel.com>
Tested-by: Aaron Brown <aaron.f.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igbvf/ethtool.c |   29 +++++++++++++++++-----------
 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igbvf/ethtool.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igbvf/ethtool.c
index 8ce6706..90eef07 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igbvf/ethtool.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igbvf/ethtool.c
@@ -357,21 +357,28 @@ static int igbvf_set_coalesce(struct net_device *netdev,
 	struct igbvf_adapter *adapter = netdev_priv(netdev);
 	struct e1000_hw *hw = &adapter->hw;
 
-	if ((ec->rx_coalesce_usecs > IGBVF_MAX_ITR_USECS) ||
-	    ((ec->rx_coalesce_usecs > 3) &&
-	     (ec->rx_coalesce_usecs < IGBVF_MIN_ITR_USECS)) ||
-	    (ec->rx_coalesce_usecs == 2))
-		return -EINVAL;
-
-	/* convert to rate of irq's per second */
-	if (ec->rx_coalesce_usecs && ec->rx_coalesce_usecs <= 3) {
+	if ((ec->rx_coalesce_usecs >= IGBVF_MIN_ITR_USECS) &&
+	     (ec->rx_coalesce_usecs <= IGBVF_MAX_ITR_USECS)) {
+		adapter->current_itr = ec->rx_coalesce_usecs << 2;
+		adapter->requested_itr = 1000000000 /
+					(adapter->current_itr * 256);
+	} else if ((ec->rx_coalesce_usecs == 3) ||
+		   (ec->rx_coalesce_usecs == 2)) {
 		adapter->current_itr = IGBVF_START_ITR;
 		adapter->requested_itr = ec->rx_coalesce_usecs;
-	} else {
-		adapter->current_itr = ec->rx_coalesce_usecs << 2;
+	} else if (ec->rx_coalesce_usecs == 0) {
+		/*
+		 * The user's desire is to turn off interrupt throttling
+		 * altogether, but due to HW limitations, we can't do that.
+		 * Instead we set a very small value in EITR, which would
+		 * allow ~967k interrupts per second, but allow the adapter's
+		 * internal clocking to still function properly.
+		 */
+		adapter->current_itr = 4;
 		adapter->requested_itr = 1000000000 /
 					(adapter->current_itr * 256);
-	}
+	} else
+		return -EINVAL;
 
 	writel(adapter->current_itr,
 	       hw->hw_addr + adapter->rx_ring->itr_register);
-- 
1.7.10.4

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