From: Michael Breuer <mbreuer@majjas.com>
To: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@gmail.com>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>,
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, flyboy@gmail.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>, Don Fry <pcnet32@verizon.net>,
Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com>,
Matt Carlson <mcarlson@broadcom.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sky2: receive dma mapping error handling
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 23:17:41 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B650465.7010503@majjas.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100131003449.GA11935@del.dom.local>
On 01/30/2010 07:34 PM, Jarek Poplawski wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 11:31:48AM -0500, Michael Breuer wrote:
>
>> On 01/28/2010 06:36 PM, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
>>
>>> Please try this patch (and only this patch), on 2.6.33-rc5[*];
>>> none of the other patches that did not make it upstream because that
>>> confuses things too much.
>>>
>>> The code that checks for DMA mapping errors on receive buffers would
>>> not handle errors correctly. I doubt you have these errors, but if you
>>> did then it would explain the problems. The code has to be a little
>>> tricky and build mapping for new rx buffer before releasing old one,
>>> that way if new mapping fails, the old one can be reused.
>>>
>>> If it works for you, I will resubmit with signed-off.
>>>
>>> -
>>>
>>>
>> Nope - tx crash again. This time the system stayed up (but hosed)
>> for a few hours. When I tried to recover eth0 the system then
>> crashed.
>>
>> Brief summary of events (log extract below):
>>
>> System start Jan 28 19:29
>> Everything seemed good (load and all) until 17:13:11 the following
>> day when I got rx errors:
>>
>> Jan 29 17:13:11 mail kernel: sky2 eth0: rx error, status 0x6230010
>> length 1518
>> Jan 29 17:13:11 mail kernel: sky2 eth0: rx error, status 0x7f40010
>> length 1518
>>
> These are length errors, but status shows more than 1518, e.g. 2036
> here, unless I miss something. Please, don't use jumbo frames in your
> network until we fully debug it for regular frames (Stephen admitted
> sky2 jumbo might be broken).
>
MTU was 1500 - not using jumbo frames as they don't work.
> ...
>
>> As I started looking at logs, the system hung and rebooted. I'm up
>> now with dma debug enabled, however as with 2.6.32.4 num_entries is
>> dropping and I don't think that dma debug will remain enabled long
>> enough to catch a crash.
>>
> Could you try the patch below to show maybe some other users of
> dma-debug entries?
>
> Jarek P.
> ---
>
Will do. Note that I'm running with the dma debug filter set to sky2.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-01-31 4:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 99+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-01-20 9:41 [PATCH] sky2: Fix WARNING: at lib/dma-debug.c:902 check_sync Jarek Poplawski
2010-01-20 18:03 ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-01-20 20:11 ` Michael Chan
2010-01-20 20:30 ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-01-20 20:58 ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-01-20 22:50 ` David Miller
2010-01-20 22:45 ` David Miller
2010-01-20 18:09 ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-01-20 22:24 ` Alan Cox
2010-01-20 22:53 ` David Miller
2010-01-20 22:53 ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-01-21 15:22 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2010-01-21 18:41 ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-01-22 5:11 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2010-01-22 6:38 ` David Miller
2010-02-03 1:18 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2010-02-03 1:27 ` David Miller
2010-01-21 19:59 ` Michael Breuer
2010-01-21 20:41 ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-01-21 20:46 ` Michael Breuer
2010-01-21 21:02 ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-01-22 18:01 ` Hang: 2.6.32.4 sky2/DMAR (was [PATCH] sky2: Fix WARNING: at lib/dma-debug.c:902 check_sync) Michael Breuer
2010-01-22 21:53 ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-01-22 22:14 ` Michael Breuer
2010-01-22 23:06 ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-01-22 23:25 ` Michael Breuer
2010-01-22 23:46 ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-01-22 23:50 ` Michael Breuer
2010-01-23 23:21 ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-01-24 1:53 ` Michael Breuer
2010-01-27 15:34 ` Michael Breuer
2010-01-27 16:50 ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-01-27 16:57 ` Michael Breuer
2010-01-27 17:45 ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-01-27 17:57 ` Michael Breuer
2010-01-27 18:33 ` Michael Breuer
2010-01-27 23:54 ` Hang: 2.6.32.4 sky2/DMAR David Miller
2010-01-27 17:56 ` Hang: 2.6.32.4 sky2/DMAR (was [PATCH] sky2: Fix WARNING: at lib/dma-debug.c:902 check_sync) Stephen Hemminger
2010-01-27 17:58 ` Michael Breuer
2010-01-27 18:08 ` Michael Breuer
2010-01-27 18:45 ` Michael Breuer
2010-01-27 19:23 ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-01-27 19:32 ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-01-28 15:32 ` Michael Breuer
2010-01-28 16:43 ` Michael Breuer
2010-01-28 17:08 ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-01-28 18:46 ` Michael Breuer
2010-01-28 22:34 ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-01-28 22:43 ` Michael Breuer
2010-01-28 22:56 ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-01-28 22:59 ` Michael Breuer
2010-01-28 23:36 ` [PATCH] sky2: receive dma mapping error handling Stephen Hemminger
2010-01-29 0:05 ` Michael Breuer
2010-01-30 16:30 ` Michael Breuer
2010-01-30 16:31 ` Michael Breuer
2010-01-31 0:34 ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-01-31 4:17 ` Michael Breuer [this message]
2010-01-31 22:25 ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-01-31 23:58 ` Michael Breuer
2010-01-31 4:55 ` Michael Breuer
2010-01-31 18:50 ` Michael Breuer
2010-01-31 21:58 ` Michael Breuer
2010-01-31 22:18 ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-02-01 0:19 ` Michael Breuer
2010-02-01 4:26 ` Michael Breuer
2010-02-01 10:47 ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-02-01 9:17 ` [PATCH v2] sky2: Fix transmit dma mapping handling Jarek Poplawski
2010-02-01 17:52 ` Michael Breuer
2010-02-01 18:08 ` [PATCH] sky2: receive dma mapping error handling Stephen Hemminger
2010-02-01 18:20 ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-02-01 18:44 ` Michael Breuer
2010-02-01 20:13 ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-02-01 20:41 ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-02-01 21:27 ` [PATCH v3] " Jarek Poplawski
2010-02-01 22:29 ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-02-01 22:46 ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-02-01 22:51 ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-02-01 21:42 ` [PATCH v3b resent] sky2: Fix transmit dma mapping handling Jarek Poplawski
2010-02-03 4:07 ` [PATCH] sky2: receive dma mapping error handling Michael Breuer
2010-02-03 16:47 ` Michael Breuer
2010-02-03 16:56 ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-02-03 17:07 ` Michael Breuer
2010-02-03 18:23 ` Justin P. Mattock
2010-02-03 18:25 ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-02-03 18:48 ` Justin P. Mattock
2010-11-06 16:57 ` Sky2 2.6.36-09934-g2aab243 DMAR error with tcp timestamp enabled Michael Breuer
2010-11-08 3:13 ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-11-08 3:38 ` Michael Breuer
2010-11-08 16:46 ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-02-03 17:16 ` [PATCH] sky2: receive dma mapping error handling Justin P. Mattock
2010-02-02 22:44 ` Andi Kleen
2012-01-16 16:39 ` Regression: sky2 kernel between 3.1 and 3.2.1 (last known good 3.0.9) Michael Breuer
2012-01-20 14:24 ` Michael Breuer
2012-01-20 16:10 ` Stephen Hemminger
2012-01-20 16:17 ` Michael Breuer
2012-01-20 16:26 ` Stephen Hemminger
2012-01-20 16:44 ` Michael Breuer
2012-01-21 15:29 ` Michael Breuer
2012-01-22 18:03 ` Stephen Hemminger
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