From: Mark Brown As documented in National application note 1287 the RX state machine on the natsemi chip can lock up under some conditions (mostly related to heavy load). When this happens a series of bogus packets are reported by the chip including some oversized frames prior to the final lockup. This patch implements the fix from the application note: when an oversized packet is reported it resets the RX state machine, dropping any currently pending packets. Signed-off-by: Mark Brown Cc: Jeff Garzik Cc: Tim Hockin Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- drivers/net/natsemi.c | 42 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 files changed, 42 insertions(+) diff -puN drivers/net/natsemi.c~natsemi-rx-lockup-fix drivers/net/natsemi.c --- devel/drivers/net/natsemi.c~natsemi-rx-lockup-fix 2006-02-08 14:41:43.000000000 -0800 +++ devel-akpm/drivers/net/natsemi.c 2006-02-08 14:41:43.000000000 -0800 @@ -1498,6 +1498,31 @@ static void natsemi_reset(struct net_dev writel(rfcr, ioaddr + RxFilterAddr); } +static void reset_rx(struct net_device *dev) +{ + int i; + struct netdev_private *np = netdev_priv(dev); + void __iomem *ioaddr = ns_ioaddr(dev); + + np->intr_status &= ~RxResetDone; + + writel(RxReset, ioaddr + ChipCmd); + + for (i=0;iintr_status |= readl(ioaddr + IntrStatus); + if (np->intr_status & RxResetDone) + break; + udelay(15); + } + if (i==NATSEMI_HW_TIMEOUT) { + printk(KERN_WARNING "%s: RX reset did not complete in %d usec.\n", + dev->name, i*15); + } else if (netif_msg_hw(np)) { + printk(KERN_WARNING "%s: RX reset took %d usec.\n", + dev->name, i*15); + } +} + static void natsemi_reload_eeprom(struct net_device *dev) { struct netdev_private *np = netdev_priv(dev); @@ -2292,6 +2317,23 @@ static void netdev_rx(struct net_device "status %#08x.\n", dev->name, np->cur_rx, desc_status); np->stats.rx_length_errors++; + + /* The RX state machine has probably + * locked up beneath us. Follow the + * reset procedure documented in + * AN-1287. */ + + spin_lock_irq(&np->lock); + reset_rx(dev); + reinit_rx(dev); + writel(np->ring_dma, ioaddr + RxRingPtr); + check_link(dev); + spin_unlock_irq(&np->lock); + + /* We'll enable RX on exit from this + * function. */ + break; + } else { /* There was an error. */ np->stats.rx_errors++; _