[PATCH v2 3/3] ucc_geth: Fix hangs after switching from full to half duplex
Scott Wood
scottwood at freescale.com
Fri Sep 11 04:04:32 EST 2009
Anton Vorontsov wrote:
> MPC8360 QE UCC ethernet controllers hang when changing link duplex
> under a load (a bit of NFS activity is enough).
>
> PHY: mdio at e0102120:00 - Link is Up - 1000/Full
> sh-3.00# ethtool -s eth0 speed 100 duplex half autoneg off
> PHY: mdio at e0102120:00 - Link is Down
> PHY: mdio at e0102120:00 - Link is Up - 100/Half
> NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0 (ucc_geth): transmit queue 0 timed out
> ------------[ cut here ]------------
> Badness at c01fcbd0 [verbose debug info unavailable]
> NIP: c01fcbd0 LR: c01fcbd0 CTR: c0194e44
> ...
>
> The cure is to disable the controller before changing speed/duplex
> and enable it afterwards.
>
> Since ugeth_graceful_stop_{tx,rx} now may be called from an atomic
> context, switch the two functions from msleep() to mdelay().
Ouch. Can we put this in a workqueue or something?
-Scott
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