[Linux-stm32] [PATCH net] net: stmmac: Sync RX Buffer upon allocation

Ezequiel Garcia ezequiel at vanguardiasur.com.ar
Tue Jul 30 14:17:39 UTC 2019


On Tue, 30 Jul 2019 at 10:57, Jose Abreu <Jose.Abreu at synopsys.com> wrote:
>
> With recent changes that introduced support for Page Pool in stmmac, Jon
> reported that NFS boot was no longer working on an ARM64 based platform
> that had the IP behind an IOMMU.
>
> As Page Pool API does not guarantee DMA syncing because of the use of
> DMA_ATTR_SKIP_CPU_SYNC flag, we have to explicit sync the whole buffer upon
> re-allocation because we are always re-using same pages.
>
> In fact, ARM64 code invalidates the DMA area upon two situations [1]:
>         - sync_single_for_cpu(): Invalidates if direction != DMA_TO_DEVICE
>         - sync_single_for_device(): Invalidates if direction == DMA_FROM_DEVICE
>
> So, as we must invalidate both the current RX buffer and the newly allocated
> buffer we propose this fix.
>
> [1] arch/arm64/mm/cache.S
>
> Reported-by: Jon Hunter <jonathanh at nvidia.com>
> Tested-by: Jon Hunter <jonathanh at nvidia.com>
> Fixes: 2af6106ae949 ("net: stmmac: Introducing support for Page Pool")
> Signed-off-by: Jose Abreu <joabreu at synopsys.com>

Thanks a lot for the bug hunt and the fix. This fixes NFS mounting
on my RK3288 and RK3399 boards.

Tested-by: Ezequiel Garcia <ezequiel at collabora.com>



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