From: Steffen Dirkwinkel <lists@steffen.cc>
To: "Théo Lebrun" <theo.lebrun@bootlin.com>,
"Conor Dooley" <conor.dooley@microchip.com>,
"Andrew Lunn" <andrew+netdev@lunn.ch>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
"Eric Dumazet" <edumazet@kernel.org>,
"Jakub Kicinski" <kuba@kernel.org>,
"Paolo Abeni" <pabeni@redhat.com>,
"Simon Horman" <horms@kernel.org>,
"Kevin Hao" <haokexin@gmail.com>,
"Sebastian Andrzej Siewior" <bigeasy@linutronix.de>,
"Russell King" <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-rt-devel@lists.linux.dev,
Christian Taedcke <christian.taedcke@weidmueller.com>,
Nicolai Buchwitz <nb@tipi-net.de>,
Andrea della Porta <andrea.porta@suse.com>,
Steffen Dirkwinkel <s.dirkwinkel@beckhoff.com>,
stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH RFC net 4/6] net: macb: rotate unreaped TX frames behind the ring base on link-up
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2026 11:38:49 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261022-std-macb-v14-send-v1-4-9187bc545bf6@beckhoff.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261022-std-macb-v14-send-v1-0-9187bc545bf6@beckhoff.com>
From: Steffen Dirkwinkel <s.dirkwinkel@beckhoff.com>
Start the link-up rotation in gem_shuffle_tx_one_ring() at the first
frame that still has to be sent instead of at tx_tail, and schedule the
TX NAPI poll once transmit is enabled again.
macb_mac_link_down() masks TCOMP before disabling transmit. A frame
completed in that window keeps the used bit on its first descriptor and
is never reaped. The rotation moves it to index 0, where the controller
starts after link-up, reads the used bit and stops; macb_tx_restart()
then keeps writing TSTART onto the same descriptor, an interrupt storm
that on PREEMPT_RT ends in RCU stalls.
Keeping the completed frames behind the ring base leaves tx_tail on
them for NAPI to reap. Reaping in link-down instead would have to wait
for NAPI there, which deadlocks against macb_close() and the PM
callbacks disabling it.
Fixes: 881a0263d502 ("net: macb: Shuffle the tx ring before enabling tx")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Steffen Dirkwinkel <s.dirkwinkel@beckhoff.com>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb_main.c | 43 +++++++++++++++++++++++---------
1 file changed, 31 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb_main.c
index 14c8299cb7f3..6e7ead23d0b7 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb_main.c
@@ -798,7 +798,7 @@ static void macb_mac_link_down(struct phylink_config *config, unsigned int mode,
/* Use juggling algorithm to left rotate tx ring and tx skb array */
static void gem_shuffle_tx_one_ring(struct macb_queue *queue)
{
- unsigned int head, tail, count, ring_size, desc_size;
+ unsigned int head, tail, count, ring_size, desc_size, start, done;
struct macb_tx_skb tx_skb, *skb_curr, *skb_next;
struct macb_dma_desc *desc_curr, *desc_next;
unsigned int i, cycles, shift, curr, next;
@@ -817,8 +817,19 @@ static void gem_shuffle_tx_one_ring(struct macb_queue *queue)
ring_size = bp->tx_ring_size;
count = CIRC_CNT(head, tail, ring_size);
- if (!(tail % ring_size))
- goto unlock;
+ /* Frames completed while link-down had TCOMP masked are still
+ * unreaped and their used bit would stop the controller at the ring
+ * base, so rotate the first frame still to be sent there instead.
+ */
+ rmb();
+ for (start = tail; start != head &&
+ (macb_tx_desc(queue, start)->ctrl & MACB_BIT(TX_USED)); start++)
+ while (start + 1 != head && !macb_tx_skb(queue, start)->skb)
+ start++;
+ done = start - tail;
+
+ if (!(start % ring_size))
+ goto reset_hw_ptr;
if (!count) {
queue->tx_head = 0;
@@ -826,7 +837,7 @@ static void gem_shuffle_tx_one_ring(struct macb_queue *queue)
goto reset_hw_ptr;
}
- shift = tail % ring_size;
+ shift = start % ring_size;
cycles = gcd(ring_size, shift);
for (i = 0; i < cycles; i++) {
@@ -866,24 +877,23 @@ static void gem_shuffle_tx_one_ring(struct macb_queue *queue)
sizeof(struct macb_tx_skb));
}
- queue->tx_head = count;
- queue->tx_tail = 0;
+ queue->tx_tail = done ? ring_size - done : 0;
+ queue->tx_head = queue->tx_tail + count;
/* Make descriptor updates visible to hardware */
wmb();
reset_hw_ptr:
- /* tx_tail was reset to the ring base, so TBQP must be reprogrammed
- * to match; otherwise it keeps pointing at a stale descriptor. Safe
- * to write directly here as TX is still disabled (called from
- * macb_mac_link_up() before TE is set).
+ /* The first frame to be sent is now at the ring base, so TBQP must
+ * be reprogrammed to match; otherwise it keeps pointing at a stale
+ * descriptor. Safe to write directly here as TX is still disabled
+ * (called from macb_mac_link_up() before TE is set).
*/
queue_writel(queue, TBQP, lower_32_bits(queue->tx_ring_dma));
-unlock:
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&queue->tx_ptr_lock, flags);
}
-/* Rotate the queue so that the tail is at index 0 */
+/* Rotate the queue so that the first frame to be sent is at index 0 */
static void gem_shuffle_tx_rings(struct macb *bp)
{
struct macb_queue *queue;
@@ -958,6 +968,15 @@ static void macb_mac_link_up(struct phylink_config *config,
macb_writel(bp, NCR, ctrl | MACB_BIT(RE) | MACB_BIT(TE));
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&bp->lock, flags);
+ if (!(bp->caps & MACB_CAPS_MACB_IS_EMAC)) {
+ /* Reap the frames completed while link-down had TCOMP masked */
+ local_bh_disable();
+ for (q = 0, queue = bp->queues; q < bp->num_queues; ++q, ++queue)
+ if (READ_ONCE(queue->tx_tail) != READ_ONCE(queue->tx_head))
+ napi_schedule(&queue->napi_tx);
+ local_bh_enable();
+ }
+
netif_tx_wake_all_queues(netdev);
}
--
2.56.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-10-22 9:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-10-22 9:38 [PATCH RFC net 0/6] net: macb: fix TX stalls, IRQ storms and a lost NCR update " Steffen Dirkwinkel
2026-10-22 9:38 ` [PATCH RFC net 1/6] net: macb: take bp->lock around NCR read-modify-writes Steffen Dirkwinkel
2026-10-22 9:38 ` [PATCH RFC net 2/6] net: macb: reprogram TBQP after shuffling the TX ring on link-up Steffen Dirkwinkel
2026-10-22 9:38 ` [PATCH RFC net 3/6] net: macb: mask TXUBR during TX NAPI poll to prevent IRQ storms Steffen Dirkwinkel
2026-10-22 9:38 ` Steffen Dirkwinkel [this message]
2026-10-22 9:38 ` [PATCH RFC net 5/6] net: macb: kick the transmitter on link-up Steffen Dirkwinkel
2026-10-22 9:38 ` [PATCH RFC net 6/6] net: macb: keep best-effort traffic on TX queue 0 Steffen Dirkwinkel
2026-10-22 9:55 ` [PATCH RFC net 0/6] net: macb: fix TX stalls, IRQ storms and a lost NCR update on link-up Nicolai Buchwitz
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