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uli526x: initialize the hardware prior to requesting interrupts

PATCH Applied Anton Vorontsov 2 participants 2 messages Apr 29, 2008 – May 6, 2008

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PATCH 1/3 uli526x: initialize the hardware prior to requesting interrupts

The firmware on MPC8610HPCD boards enables ULI ethernet and leaves it in some funky state before booting Linux. For drivers, it's always good idea to (re)initialize the hardware prior to requesting interrupts.

This patch fixes the following oops:

Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1]

MPC86xx HPCD
NIP: c0172820 LR: c017287c CTR: 00000000
[...]
NIP [c0172820] allocate_rx_buffer+0x2c/0xb0
LR [c017287c] allocate_rx_buffer+0x88/0xb0

Call Trace:
[df82bdc0] [c017287c] allocate_rx_buffer+0x88/0xb0 (unreliable)
[df82bde0] [c0173000] uli526x_interrupt+0xe4/0x49c
[df82be20] [c0045418] request_irq+0xf0/0x114
[df82be50] [c01737b0] uli526x_open+0x48/0x160
[df82be70] [c0201184] dev_open+0xb0/0xe8
[df82be80] [c0200104] dev_change_flags+0x90/0x1bc
[df82bea0] [c035fab0] ip_auto_config+0x214/0xef4
[df82bf60] [c03421c8] kernel_init+0xc4/0x2ac
[df82bff0] [c0010834] kernel_thread+0x44/0x60

Instruction dump:
4e800020 9421ffe0 7c0802a6 bfa10014 7c7e1b78 90010024 80030060 83e30054 2b80002f 419d0078 3fa0c039 48000058 <907f0010> 80630088 2f830000 419e0014

---
 drivers/net/tulip/uli526x.c |    8 ++++----
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
drivers/net/tulip/uli526x.c +4 -4
index a59c1f2..1f077ac 100644
@@ -434,10 +434,6 @@ static int uli526x_open(struct net_device *dev)
 
 	ULI526X_DBUG(0, "uli526x_open", 0);
 
-	ret = request_irq(dev->irq, &uli526x_interrupt, IRQF_SHARED, dev->name, dev);
-	if (ret)
-		return ret;
-
 	/* system variable init */
 	db->cr6_data = CR6_DEFAULT | uli526x_cr6_user_set;
 	db->tx_packet_cnt = 0;
@@ -456,6 +452,10 @@ static int uli526x_open(struct net_device *dev)
 	/* Initialize ULI526X board */
 	uli526x_init(dev);
 
+	ret = request_irq(dev->irq, &uli526x_interrupt, IRQF_SHARED, dev->name, dev);
+	if (ret)
+		return ret;
+
 	/* Active System Interface */
 	netif_wake_queue(dev);
 
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Quoted 22 lines · Anton Vorontsov

The firmware on MPC8610HPCD boards enables ULI ethernet and leaves it in some funky state before booting Linux. For drivers, it's always good idea to (re)initialize the hardware prior to requesting interrupts.

This patch fixes the following oops:

Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1]

MPC86xx HPCD
NIP: c0172820 LR: c017287c CTR: 00000000
[...]
NIP [c0172820] allocate_rx_buffer+0x2c/0xb0
LR [c017287c] allocate_rx_buffer+0x88/0xb0

Call Trace:
[df82bdc0] [c017287c] allocate_rx_buffer+0x88/0xb0 (unreliable)
[df82bde0] [c0173000] uli526x_interrupt+0xe4/0x49c
[df82be20] [c0045418] request_irq+0xf0/0x114
[df82be50] [c01737b0] uli526x_open+0x48/0x160
[df82be70] [c0201184] dev_open+0xb0/0xe8
[df82be80] [c0200104] dev_change_flags+0x90/0x1bc
[df82bea0] [c035fab0] ip_auto_config+0x214/0xef4
[df82bf60] [c03421c8] kernel_init+0xc4/0x2ac
[df82bff0] [c0010834] kernel_thread+0x44/0x60
Quoted 8 lines

Instruction dump:
4e800020 9421ffe0 7c0802a6 bfa10014 7c7e1b78 90010024 80030060 83e30054 2b80002f 419d0078 3fa0c039 48000058 <907f0010> 80630088 2f830000 419e0014

---
 drivers/net/tulip/uli526x.c |    8 ++++----
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

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