[PATCH v6 4/4] drivers: net: Add APM X-Gene SoC ethernet driver support.

[Iyappan Subramanian]

On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 9:42 PM, David Miller <davem at davemloft.net> wrote:
> From: Iyappan Subramanian <isubramanian at apm.com>
> Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2014 17:18:46 -0700
>
>> +static netdev_tx_t xgene_enet_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb,
>> +                                      struct net_device *ndev)
>> +{
>> +     struct xgene_enet_pdata *pdata = netdev_priv(ndev);
>> +     struct xgene_enet_desc_ring *tx_ring = pdata->tx_ring;
>> +     struct xgene_enet_desc_ring *cp_ring = tx_ring->cp_ring;
>> +     u32 tx_level, cq_level;
>> +
>> +     tx_level = xgene_enet_ring_len(tx_ring);
>> +     cq_level = xgene_enet_ring_len(cp_ring);
>> +     if (unlikely(tx_level > pdata->tx_qcnt_hi ||
>> +                  cq_level > pdata->cp_qcnt_hi)) {
>> +             netif_stop_queue(ndev);
>> +             return NETDEV_TX_BUSY;
>> +     }
>> +
>> +     if (xgene_enet_setup_tx_desc(tx_ring, skb))
>> +             return NETDEV_TX_OK;
>
> If you return NETDEV_TX_OK, it is your responsibility to deal with the
> SKB, because you own it.
>
> In particular, you have to free the packet.

skb freeing happens in xgene_enet_tx_completion().