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Commit 3ac72b7b authored by Eric Nelson's avatar Eric Nelson Committed by David S. Miller
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net: fec: align IP header in hardware



The FEC receive accelerator (RACC) supports shifting the data payload of
received packets by 16-bits, which aligns the payload (IP header) on a
4-byte boundary, which is, if not required, at least strongly suggested
by the Linux networking layer.

Without this patch, a huge number of alignment faults will be taken by the
IP stack, as seen in /proc/cpu/alignment:

	~/$ cat /proc/cpu/alignment
	User:		0
	System:		72645 (inet_gro_receive+0x104/0x27c)
	Skipped:	0
	Half:		0
	Word:		0
	DWord:		0
	Multi:		72645
	User faults:	3 (fixup+warn)

This patch was suggested by Andrew Lunn in this message to linux-netdev:
	http://marc.info/?l=linux-arm-kernel&m=147465452108384&w=2

and adapted from a patch by Russell King from 2014:
	http://git.arm.linux.org.uk/cgit/linux-arm.git/commit/?id=70d8a8a

Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Nelson <eric@nelint.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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