From: Grant Grundler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

IRQs are racing with tulip_down().
DMA can be restarted by tulip_interrupt() _after_ we call
tulip_stop_rxtx() and the DMA buffers are unmapped.  The result
is an MCA (hard crash on ia64) because of an IO TLB miss.

Signed-off-by: Grant Grundler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
 drivers/net/tulip/interrupt.c  |    4 ++++
 drivers/net/tulip/tulip_core.c |   17 +++++++----------
 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/tulip/interrupt.c b/drivers/net/tulip/interrupt.c
index 99ccf2e..19faa0e 100644
--- a/drivers/net/tulip/interrupt.c
+++ b/drivers/net/tulip/interrupt.c
@@ -87,6 +87,10 @@ int tulip_refill_rx(struct net_device *d
                }
                tp->rx_ring[entry].status = cpu_to_le32(DescOwned);
        }
+
+/* FIXME: restarting DMA breaks tulip_down() code path.
+   tulip_down() will unmap the RX and TX descriptors.
+ */
        if(tp->chip_id == LC82C168) {
                if(((ioread32(tp->base_addr + CSR5)>>17)&0x07) == 4) {
                        /* Rx stopped due to out of buffers,
diff --git a/drivers/net/tulip/tulip_core.c b/drivers/net/tulip/tulip_core.c
index 81905f4..363e5f6 100644
--- a/drivers/net/tulip/tulip_core.c
+++ b/drivers/net/tulip/tulip_core.c
@@ -742,21 +742,20 @@ #endif
 
        /* Disable interrupts by clearing the interrupt mask. */
        iowrite32 (0x00000000, ioaddr + CSR7);
+       ioread32 (ioaddr + CSR7);       /* flush posted write */
 
-       /* Stop the Tx and Rx processes. */
-       tulip_stop_rxtx(tp);
+       spin_unlock_irqrestore (&tp->lock, flags);
 
-       /* prepare receive buffers */
-       tulip_refill_rx(dev);
+       free_irq (dev->irq, dev);       /* no more races after this */
+       tulip_stop_rxtx(tp);            /* Stop DMA */
 
-       /* release any unconsumed transmit buffers */
-       tulip_clean_tx_ring(tp);
+       /* Put driver back into the state we start with */
+       tulip_refill_rx(dev);           /* prepare RX buffers */
+       tulip_clean_tx_ring(tp);        /* clean up unsent TX buffers */
 
        if (ioread32 (ioaddr + CSR6) != 0xffffffff)
                tp->stats.rx_missed_errors += ioread32 (ioaddr + CSR8) & 0xffff;
 
-       spin_unlock_irqrestore (&tp->lock, flags);
-
        init_timer(&tp->timer);
        tp->timer.data = (unsigned long)dev;
        tp->timer.function = tulip_tbl[tp->chip_id].media_timer;
@@ -782,7 +781,6 @@ static int tulip_close (struct net_devic
                printk (KERN_DEBUG "%s: Shutting down ethercard, status was 
%2.2x.\n",
                        dev->name, ioread32 (ioaddr + CSR5));
 
-       free_irq (dev->irq, dev);
 
        /* Free all the skbuffs in the Rx queue. */
        for (i = 0; i < RX_RING_SIZE; i++) {
@@ -1752,7 +1750,6 @@ static int tulip_suspend (struct pci_dev
                tulip_down(dev);
 
        netif_device_detach(dev);
-       free_irq(dev->irq, dev);
 
        pci_save_state(pdev);
        pci_disable_device(pdev);
-- 
1.4.1.1

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