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[net,v2,1/2] net: ethernet: cortina: Drop software checksum and TSO

Message ID 20231216-new-gemini-ethernet-regression-v2-1-64c269413dfa@linaro.org (mailing list archive)
State Superseded
Delegated to: Netdev Maintainers
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Series Fix a regression in the Gemini ethernet controller. | expand

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Commit Message

Linus Walleij Dec. 16, 2023, 7:36 p.m. UTC
The recent change to allow large frames without hardware checksumming
slotted in software checksumming in the driver if hardware could not
do it.

This will however upset TSO (TCP Segment Offloading). Typical
error dumps includes this:

skb len=2961 headroom=222 headlen=66 tailroom=0
(...)
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 956 at net/core/dev.c:3259 skb_warn_bad_offload+0x7c/0x108
gemini-ethernet-port: caps=(0x0000010000154813, 0x00002007ffdd7889)

And the packets do not go through.

After investigating I drilled it down to the introduction of the
software checksumming in the driver.

Since the segmenting of packets will be done by the hardware this
makes a bit of sense since in that case the hardware also needs to
be keeping track of the checksumming.

That begs the question why large TCP or UDP packets also have to
bypass the checksumming (like e.g. ICMP does). If the hardware is
splitting it into smaller packets per-MTU setting, and checksumming
them, why is this happening then? I don't know. I know it is needed,
from tests: the OpenWrt webserver uhttpd starts sending big skb:s (up
to 2047 bytes, the max MTU) and above 1514 bytes it starts to fail
and hang unless the bypass bit is set: the frames are not getting
through.

Drop the size check and the offloading features for now: this
needs to be fixed up properly.

Suggested-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Fixes: d4d0c5b4d279 ("net: ethernet: cortina: Handle large frames")
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/cortina/gemini.c | 21 ++-------------------
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)

Comments

Jakub Kicinski Dec. 18, 2023, 11:23 p.m. UTC | #1
On Sat, 16 Dec 2023 20:36:52 +0100 Linus Walleij wrote:
> -		NETIF_F_IPV6_CSUM | NETIF_F_RXCSUM | \
> -		NETIF_F_TSO | NETIF_F_TSO_ECN | NETIF_F_TSO6)
> +	       NETIF_F_IPV6_CSUM | NETIF_F_RXCSUM )

nit: checkpatch is really upset about this space before )
Linus Walleij Dec. 19, 2023, 2:24 p.m. UTC | #2
On Tue, Dec 19, 2023 at 12:23 AM Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> wrote:
> On Sat, 16 Dec 2023 20:36:52 +0100 Linus Walleij wrote:

> > -             NETIF_F_IPV6_CSUM | NETIF_F_RXCSUM | \
> > -             NETIF_F_TSO | NETIF_F_TSO_ECN | NETIF_F_TSO6)
> > +            NETIF_F_IPV6_CSUM | NETIF_F_RXCSUM )
>
> nit: checkpatch is really upset about this space before )

I'll fix it, Eric and Maxime opened up the idea of a generic helper to
extract the ethertype from a buffer, so I'll fix this in the next iteration.

Yours,
Linus Walleij
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Patch

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/cortina/gemini.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/cortina/gemini.c
index 78287cfcbf63..6a7ea051391a 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/cortina/gemini.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/cortina/gemini.c
@@ -79,8 +79,7 @@  MODULE_PARM_DESC(debug, "Debug level (0=none,...,16=all)");
 #define GMAC0_IRQ4_8 (GMAC0_MIB_INT_BIT | GMAC0_RX_OVERRUN_INT_BIT)
 
 #define GMAC_OFFLOAD_FEATURES (NETIF_F_SG | NETIF_F_IP_CSUM | \
-		NETIF_F_IPV6_CSUM | NETIF_F_RXCSUM | \
-		NETIF_F_TSO | NETIF_F_TSO_ECN | NETIF_F_TSO6)
+	       NETIF_F_IPV6_CSUM | NETIF_F_RXCSUM )
 
 /**
  * struct gmac_queue_page - page buffer per-page info
@@ -1145,7 +1144,6 @@  static int gmac_map_tx_bufs(struct net_device *netdev, struct sk_buff *skb,
 	dma_addr_t mapping;
 	unsigned short mtu;
 	void *buffer;
-	int ret;
 
 	mtu  = ETH_HLEN;
 	mtu += netdev->mtu;
@@ -1160,22 +1158,7 @@  static int gmac_map_tx_bufs(struct net_device *netdev, struct sk_buff *skb,
 		word3 |= mtu;
 	}
 
-	if (skb->len >= ETH_FRAME_LEN) {
-		/* Hardware offloaded checksumming isn't working on frames
-		 * bigger than 1514 bytes. A hypothesis about this is that the
-		 * checksum buffer is only 1518 bytes, so when the frames get
-		 * bigger they get truncated, or the last few bytes get
-		 * overwritten by the FCS.
-		 *
-		 * Just use software checksumming and bypass on bigger frames.
-		 */
-		if (skb->ip_summed == CHECKSUM_PARTIAL) {
-			ret = skb_checksum_help(skb);
-			if (ret)
-				return ret;
-		}
-		word1 |= TSS_BYPASS_BIT;
-	} else if (skb->ip_summed == CHECKSUM_PARTIAL) {
+	if (skb->ip_summed == CHECKSUM_PARTIAL) {
 		int tcp = 0;
 
 		/* We do not switch off the checksumming on non TCP/UDP