Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 6 Aug 2014 23:20:27 -0700 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Fix e1000e with Intel 82572EI that has no hardware timestamp support | From | Jeff Kirsher <> |
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On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 11:10 PM, Koehrer Mathias (ETAS/ESW5) <mathias.koehrer@etas.com> wrote: > With the Intel 82527EI (driver: e1000e) there is an issue when running > the ptpd2 program, that leads to a kernel oops. The reason is here that > in e1000_xmit_frame() a work queue will be scheduled that has not been > initialized in this case. The work queue "tx_hwstamp_work" will only be > initialized if adapter->flags & FLAG_HAS_HW_TIMESTAMP set. This check > is missing in e1000_xmit_frame(). > > The following patch adds the missing check. > > Signed-off-by: Mathias Koehrer <mathias.koehrer@etas.com> > > --- > drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/netdev.c | 3 ++- > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > > Index: linux-3.12.26/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/netdev.c > =================================================================== > --- linux-3.12.26.orig/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/netdev.c 2014-08-04 10:56:56.000000000 +0200 > +++ linux-3.12.26/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/netdev.c 2014-08-07 08:05:17.000000000 +0200 > @@ -5550,7 +5550,8 @@ > nr_frags); > if (count) { > if (unlikely((skb_shinfo(skb)->tx_flags & SKBTX_HW_TSTAMP) && > - !adapter->tx_hwtstamp_skb)) { > + !adapter->tx_hwtstamp_skb && > + (adapter->flags & FLAG_HAS_HW_TIMESTAMP))) { > skb_shinfo(skb)->tx_flags |= SKBTX_IN_PROGRESS; > tx_flags |= E1000_TX_FLAGS_HWTSTAMP; > adapter->tx_hwtstamp_skb = skb_get(skb); >
So is this v2 of your patch? and you are ignoring Alex's last suggestion to do:
unlikely(skb->tx_flags & HW_TSTAMP) && (adapter->flags & HAS_HW_TSTAMP) && !adapter->tx_hwtstamp_skb
Just wondering....
-- Cheers, Jeff
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