r8169: don't read interrupt mask register in interrupt handler

After the original patch network starts to crash on heavy load.
It's not fully clear why this additional register read has such side
effects, but removing it fixes the issue.

Thanks also to Alex for his contribution and hints.

[0] https://marc.info/?t=155268170400002&r=1&w=2

Fixes: e782410ed237 ("r8169: improve spurious interrupt detection")
Reported-by: VDR User <user.vdr@gmail.com>
Tested-by: VDR User <user.vdr@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169.c
index c29dde0..9dd1cd2 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169.c
@@ -678,6 +678,7 @@ struct rtl8169_private {
                struct work_struct work;
        } wk;
 
+       unsigned irq_enabled:1;
        unsigned supports_gmii:1;
        dma_addr_t counters_phys_addr;
        struct rtl8169_counters *counters;
@@ -1293,6 +1294,7 @@ static void rtl_ack_events(struct rtl8169_private *tp, u16 bits)
 static void rtl_irq_disable(struct rtl8169_private *tp)
 {
        RTL_W16(tp, IntrMask, 0);
+       tp->irq_enabled = 0;
 }
 
 #define RTL_EVENT_NAPI_RX      (RxOK | RxErr)
@@ -1301,6 +1303,7 @@ static void rtl_irq_disable(struct rtl8169_private *tp)
 
 static void rtl_irq_enable(struct rtl8169_private *tp)
 {
+       tp->irq_enabled = 1;
        RTL_W16(tp, IntrMask, tp->irq_mask);
 }
 
@@ -6520,9 +6523,8 @@ static irqreturn_t rtl8169_interrupt(int irq, void *dev_instance)
 {
        struct rtl8169_private *tp = dev_instance;
        u16 status = RTL_R16(tp, IntrStatus);
-       u16 irq_mask = RTL_R16(tp, IntrMask);
 
-       if (status == 0xffff || !(status & irq_mask))
+       if (!tp->irq_enabled || status == 0xffff || !(status & tp->irq_mask))
                return IRQ_NONE;
 
        if (unlikely(status & SYSErr)) {