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e1000e: enable ECC on I217/I218 to catch packet buffer memory errors

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In rare instances, memory errors have been detected in the internal packet
buffer memory on I217/I218 when stressed under certain environmental
conditions.  Enable Error Correcting Code (ECC) in hardware to catch both
correctable and uncorrectable errors.  Correctable errors will be handled
by the hardware.  Uncorrectable errors in the packet buffer will cause the
packet to be received with an error indication in the buffer descriptor
causing the packet to be discarded.  If the uncorrectable error is in the
descriptor itself, the hardware will stop and interrupt the driver
indicating the error.  The driver will then reset the hardware in order to
clear the error and restart.

Both types of errors will be accounted for in statistics counters.

Signed-off-by: Bruce Allan <bruce.w.allan@intel.com>
Tested-by: Jeff Pieper <jeffrey.e.pieper@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
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Bruce Allan 2013-01-23 09:00:03 +00:00 • committed by Jeff Kirsher
parent d89777bf0e
commit 94fb848bf4
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drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/ethtool.c
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@ -109,6 +109,8 @@ static const struct e1000_stats e1000_gstrings_stats[] = {
E1000_STAT("rx_dma_failed", rx_dma_failed),
E1000_STAT("tx_dma_failed", tx_dma_failed),
E1000_STAT("rx_hwtstamp_cleared", rx_hwtstamp_cleared),
E1000_STAT("uncorr_ecc_errors", uncorr_errors),
E1000_STAT("corr_ecc_errors", corr_errors),
};
#define E1000_GLOBAL_STATS_LEN ARRAY_SIZE(e1000_gstrings_stats)