From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759359AbZE0Ds1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 May 2009 23:48:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757233AbZE0DsR (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 May 2009 23:48:17 -0400 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:48624 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757068AbZE0DsQ (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 May 2009 23:48:16 -0400 Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 20:48:15 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20090526.204815.185454308.davem@davemloft.net> To: Xiaotian.Feng@windriver.com Cc: galak@kernel.crashing.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH net] gianfar: fix babbling rx error event bug From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <1243389156-1668-1-git-send-email-Xiaotian.Feng@windriver.com> References: <1243389156-1668-1-git-send-email-Xiaotian.Feng@windriver.com> X-Mailer: Mew version 6.2.51 on Emacs 22.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Xiaotian Feng Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 09:52:36 +0800 > Gianfar interrupt handler uses IEVENT_ERR_MASK to check and handle errors. > Babbling RX error (IEVENT_BABR) should be included in IEVENT_ERROR_MASK. > Otherwise if BABR is raised, it never gets handled nor cleared, and an > interrupt storm results. This has been observed to happen on sending a > burst of ethernet frames to a gianfar based board. > > Signed-off-by: Xiaotian Feng Patch applied, thanks.