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    net: stmmac: Avoid DMA_CHAN_CONTROL write if no Split Header support · f8e7dfd6
    Vincent Whitchurch authored
    The driver assumes that split headers can be enabled/disabled without
    stopping/starting the device, so it writes DMA_CHAN_CONTROL from
    stmmac_set_features().  However, on my system (IP v5.10a without Split
    Header support), simply writing DMA_CHAN_CONTROL when DMA is running
    (for example, with the commands below) leads to a TX watchdog timeout.
    
     host$ socat TCP-LISTEN:1024,fork,reuseaddr - &
     device$ ethtool -K eth0 tso off
     device$ ethtool -K eth0 tso on
     device$ dd if=/dev/zero bs=1M count=10 | socat - TCP4:host:1024
     <tx watchdog timeout>
    
    Note that since my IP is configured without Split Header support, the
    driver always just reads and writes the same value to the
    DMA_CHAN_CONTROL register.
    
    I don't have access to any platforms with Split Header support so I
    don't know if these writes to the DMA_CHAN_CONTROL while DMA is running
    actually work properly on such systems.  I could not find anything in
    the databook that says that DMA_CHAN_CONTROL should not be written when
    the DMA is running.
    
    But on systems without Split Header support, there is in any case no
    need to call enable_sph() in stmmac_set_features() at all since SPH can
    never be toggled, so we can avoid the watchdog timeout there by skipping
    this call.
    
    Fixes: 8c6fc097 ("net: stmmac: gmac4+: Add Split Header support")
    Signed-off-by: default avatarVincent Whitchurch <vincent.whitchurch@axis.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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