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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] e1000e: Do not auto-clear ICR bits which aren't
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Philippe Mathieu-Daudé |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] e1000e: Do not auto-clear ICR bits which aren't set in EIAC |
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Tue, 12 Jun 2018 15:38:30 -0300 |
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On 06/12/2018 03:30 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> On 2018-06-12 20:11, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
>> Hi Jan,
>>
>> On 06/12/2018 02:22 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>>> On 2018-05-22 09:00, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>>>> On 2018-04-16 17:29, Peter Maydell wrote:
>>>>> On 16 April 2018 at 16:25, Jan Kiszka <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>>>> On 2018-04-01 23:17, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>>>>>>> From: Jan Kiszka <address@hidden>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The spec does not justify clearing of any E1000_ICR_OTHER_CAUSES when
>>>>>>> E1000_ICR_OTHER is set in EIAC. In fact, removing this code fixes the
>>>>>>> issue the Linux driver runs into since 4aea7a5c5e94 ("e1000e: Avoid
>>>>>>> receiver overrun interrupt bursts") and was worked around by
>>>>>>> 745d0bd3af99 ("e1000e: Remove Other from EIAC").
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <address@hidden>
>>>>>>> ---
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> This resolves the issue I reported on February 18 ("e1000e: MSI-X
>>>>>>> problem with recent Linux drivers").
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> hw/net/e1000e_core.c | 4 ----
>>>>>>> 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> diff --git a/hw/net/e1000e_core.c b/hw/net/e1000e_core.c
>>>>>>> index ecf9b15555..d38f025c0f 100644
>>>>>>> --- a/hw/net/e1000e_core.c
>>>>>>> +++ b/hw/net/e1000e_core.c
>>>>>>> @@ -2022,10 +2022,6 @@ e1000e_msix_notify_one(E1000ECore *core,
>>>>>>> uint32_t cause, uint32_t int_cfg)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> effective_eiac = core->mac[EIAC] & cause;
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> - if (effective_eiac == E1000_ICR_OTHER) {
>>>>>>> - effective_eiac |= E1000_ICR_OTHER_CAUSES;
>>>>>>> - }
>>>>>>> -
>>>>>>> core->mac[ICR] &= ~effective_eiac;
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> if (!(core->mac[CTRL_EXT] & E1000_CTRL_EXT_IAME)) {
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Ping for this - as well as https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/895476.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Given that q35 uses e1000e by default and many Linux kernel versions no
>>>>>> longer work, this should likely go into upcoming and stable versions
>>>>>
>>>>> I'd rather not put it into 2.12 at this point in the release
>>>>> cycle unless it's a regression from 2.11, I think.
>>>>
>>>> Second ping - nothing hit the repo so far, nor did I receive feedback.
>>>>
>>>
>>> And another ping. For both.
>>>
>>> These days I had to help someone with a broken QEMU setup that failed
>>> installing from network. It turned out that "modprobe e1000e IntMode=0"
>>> was needed to workaround the issues my patches address.
>>
>> What about the IMS register? It is set just after.
>>
>> Looking at b38636b8372, can you test this patch?
>>
>> -- >8 --
>> diff --git a/hw/net/e1000e_core.c b/hw/net/e1000e_core.c
>> index c93c4661ed..a484b68a5a 100644
>> --- a/hw/net/e1000e_core.c
>> +++ b/hw/net/e1000e_core.c
>> @@ -2022,13 +2022,13 @@ e1000e_msix_notify_one(E1000ECore *core,
>> uint32_t cause, uint32_t int_cfg)
>>
>> effective_eiac = core->mac[EIAC] & cause;
>>
>> - if (effective_eiac == E1000_ICR_OTHER) {
>> - effective_eiac |= E1000_ICR_OTHER_CAUSES;
>> - }
>> -
>> core->mac[ICR] &= ~effective_eiac;
>>
>> if (!(core->mac[CTRL_EXT] & E1000_CTRL_EXT_IAME)) {
>> + if (effective_eiac == E1000_ICR_OTHER) {
>> + effective_eiac |= E1000_ICR_OTHER_CAUSES;
>> + }
>> +
>> core->mac[IMS] &= ~effective_eiac;
>> }
>> }
>>
>
> Before testing this: What would be the reasoning for this change?
Not breaking the purpose of b38636b8372 :)
>
> I need to refresh my caches, the debugging session is now too long ago
> again.
>
> Jan
>
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] e1000e: Do not auto-clear ICR bits which aren't set in EIAC, Jan Kiszka, 2018/06/12
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] e1000e: Do not auto-clear ICR bits which aren't set in EIAC, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé, 2018/06/12
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] e1000e: Do not auto-clear ICR bits which aren't set in EIAC, Jan Kiszka, 2018/06/12
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] e1000e: Do not auto-clear ICR bits which aren't set in EIAC,
Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <=
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] e1000e: Do not auto-clear ICR bits which aren't set in EIAC, Jan Kiszka, 2018/06/12
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] e1000e: Do not auto-clear ICR bits which aren't set in EIAC, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé, 2018/06/12
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] e1000e: Do not auto-clear ICR bits which aren't set in EIAC, Jason Wang, 2018/06/12
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] e1000e: Do not auto-clear ICR bits which aren't set in EIAC, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé, 2018/06/12
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] e1000e: Do not auto-clear ICR bits which aren't set in EIAC, Jason Wang, 2018/06/12
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] e1000e: Do not auto-clear ICR bits which aren't set in EIAC, Jason Wang, 2018/06/14
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] e1000e: Do not auto-clear ICR bits which aren't set in EIAC, Jan Kiszka, 2018/06/15