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From: Sagi Maimon <maimon.sagi@gmail.com>
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: radhey.shyam.pandey@amd.com, michal.simek@amd.com,
	andrew+netdev@lunn.ch, davem@davemloft.net, edumazet@google.com,
	kuba@kernel.org, pabeni@redhat.com, linux@armlinux.org.uk,
	daniel@iogearbox.net, andybnac@gmail.com,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Sagi Maimon <maimon.sagi@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH net v2 1/4] net: axienet: start the TX queue in axienet_open()
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2026 16:51:13 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260924135116.185161-2-maimon.sagi@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260924135116.185161-1-maimon.sagi@gmail.com>

axienet_open() never starts the transmit queue, and nothing else does
either: __dev_open() and dev_activate() leave the driver's queue state
alone.

axienet_start_xmit() stops the queue with netif_stop_queue() when the TX
ring fills, and axienet_tx_poll() wakes it again as completions free
descriptors.  If the interface is brought down while the queue is
stopped, __QUEUE_STATE_DRV_XOFF survives into the next axienet_open().
The ring is reinitialised empty, so no TX completion ever arrives to run
the wake in axienet_tx_poll(), and the interface cannot transmit until
the driver is reloaded.  The resume path is unaffected only because
netif_device_attach() wakes the queues.

Start the queue at the end of a successful axienet_open(), as most
drivers do.

Tested on an AXI Ethernet MAC behind a PCIe endpoint: traffic passes,
and resumes after each of ten down/up cycles and five module reloads,
all made with traffic running.  A queue left stopped across a down/up
cycle, with the ring full, was not reproduced.

Fixes: 8a3b7a252dca ("drivers/net/ethernet/xilinx: added Xilinx AXI Ethernet driver")
Assisted-by: LLM sparse
Signed-off-by: Sagi Maimon <maimon.sagi@gmail.com>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/xilinx/xilinx_axienet_main.c | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/xilinx/xilinx_axienet_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/xilinx/xilinx_axienet_main.c
index 782f903d318f..fb26d2e39fac 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/xilinx/xilinx_axienet_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/xilinx/xilinx_axienet_main.c
@@ -1700,6 +1700,11 @@ static int axienet_open(struct net_device *ndev)
 			goto err_phy;
 	}
 
+	/* Nothing else clears a stop left over from before the last close:
+	 * the ring is empty, so no TX completion will wake the queue.
+	 */
+	netif_start_queue(ndev);
+
 	return 0;
 
 err_free_eth_irq:
-- 
2.47.0


  reply	other threads:[~2026-09-24 13:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-09-24 13:51 [PATCH net v2 0/4] net: axienet: fix TX queue handling around a DMA error reset Sagi Maimon
2026-09-24 13:51 ` Sagi Maimon [this message]
2026-09-24 13:51 ` [PATCH net v2 2/4] net: axienet: quiesce the TX path before axienet_stop() tears it down Sagi Maimon
2026-09-24 13:51 ` [PATCH net v2 3/4] net: axienet: quiesce the TX queue across a DMA error reset Sagi Maimon
2026-09-24 13:51 ` [PATCH net v2 4/4] net: axienet: reprogram the link settings after " Sagi Maimon

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