Re: Failed to boot kernel 2.6.19-rc2 due to IBM veth problem.

[Yao Fei Zhu]

David Gibson åé:
> On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 12:26:37AM +0800, Yao Fei Zhu wrote:
>
> > Hi, all,
> >
> > Boot kernel 2.6.19-rc2 on IBM System P5 partitions will fall into xmon.
> > Here is the boot log,
>
>
> This is probably the same bug I recently posted about.  The patch
> below should fix it.
>
> ibmveth: Fix index increment calculation
>
> The recent commit 751ae21c6cd1493e3d0a4935b08fb298b9d89773 introduced
> a bug in the producer/consumer index calculation in the ibmveth driver
> - incautious use of the post-increment ++ operator resulted in an
> increment being immediately reverted.  This patch corrects the logic.
>
> Without this patch, the driver oopses almost immediately after
> activation on at least some machines.
>
> Signed-off-by: David Gibson <dwg@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Index: working-2.6/drivers/net/ibmveth.c
> ===================================================================
> --- working-2.6.orig/drivers/net/ibmveth.c	2006-10-13 14:19:54.000000000 +1000
> +++ working-2.6/drivers/net/ibmveth.c	2006-10-13 14:19:59.000000000 +1000
> @@ -212,8 +212,8 @@ static void ibmveth_replenish_buffer_poo
>  			break;
>  		}
>  
> -		free_index = pool->consumer_index++ % pool->size;
> -		pool->consumer_index = free_index;
> +		free_index = pool->consumer_index;
> +		pool->consumer_index = (pool->consumer_index + 1) % pool->size;
>  		index = pool->free_map[free_index];
>  
>  		ibmveth_assert(index != IBM_VETH_INVALID_MAP);
> @@ -329,8 +329,10 @@ static void ibmveth_remove_buffer_from_p
>  			 adapter->rx_buff_pool[pool].buff_size,
>  			 DMA_FROM_DEVICE);
>  
> -	free_index = adapter->rx_buff_pool[pool].producer_index++ % adapter->rx_buff_pool[pool].size;
> -	adapter->rx_buff_pool[pool].producer_index = free_index;
> +	free_index = adapter->rx_buff_pool[pool].producer_index;
> +	adapter->rx_buff_pool[pool].producer_index
> +		= (adapter->rx_buff_pool[pool].producer_index + 1)
> +		% adapter->rx_buff_pool[pool].size;
>  	adapter->rx_buff_pool[pool].free_map[free_index] = index;
>  
>  	mb();
David, I have verified this fix, it works fine for me, Thanks. What's the status of it? Submitted?

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