netdev - Re: ARM, AF_PACKET: caching problems on Marvell Kirkwood

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Date:	Mon, 9 May 2011 10:59:42 +0200
From:	Phil Sutter <phil@....cc>
To:	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	ne@...urth.eu, Johann Baudy <johann.baudy@...-log.net>,
	Lennert Buytenhek <kernel@...tstofly.org>,
	Nicolas Pitre <nico@...xnic.net>
Subject: Re: ARM, AF_PACKET: caching problems on Marvell Kirkwood

Hi,

On Fri, May 06, 2011 at 06:17:53PM +0200, Phil Sutter wrote:
> On Thu, May 05, 2011 at 09:46:01PM +0200, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> > I can reproduce it on a Kirkwood:
> > 
> > [    0.000000] CPU: Feroceon 88FR131 [56251311] revision 1 (ARMv5TE), cr=00053977
> 
> Thanks for the information. Seems like we have the same CPU:
> 
> | [    0.000000] CPU: Feroceon 88FR131 [56251311] revision 1 (ARMv5TE), cr=00053177
> | [    0.000000] CPU: VIVT data cache, VIVT instruction cache
> 
> and it's actually VIVT, not VIPT as I wrote in an earlier mail.

Interesting news, a friend of mine can reproduce the problem on a
Foxboard (FOXG20):

| root@...alhost:/root # dmesg |head -4
| [    0.000000] Linux version 2.6.37 (wbx@...om) (gcc version 4.5.2 (GCC) ) #1 Sat May 7 19:37:30 CEST 2011
| [    0.000000] CPU: ARM926EJ-S [41069265] revision 5 (ARMv5TEJ), cr=00053177
| [    0.000000] CPU: VIVT data cache, VIVT instruction cache
| [    0.000000] Machine: Acme Systems FOXG20
| root@...alhost:/root # uname -a
| Linux localhost 2.6.37 #1 Sat May 7 19:37:30 CEST 2011 armv5tejl GNU/Linux
| root@...alhost:/root # /mmap
| sendto(): nothing sent!
| tp_status after sending: SEND_REQUEST
| sendto(): nothing sent!
| tp_status after sending: SEND_REQUEST
| sendto(): sent 450 bytes out
| tp_status after sending: AVAILABLE
| sendto(): sent 150 bytes out
| tp_status after sending: AVAILABLE
| sendto(): nothing sent!
| tp_status after sending: SEND_REQUEST
| sendto(): nothing sent!
| tp_status after sending: SEND_REQUEST
| sendto(): sent 300 bytes out
| tp_status after sending: SEND_REQUEST
| sendto(): nothing sent!
| tp_status after sending: SEND_REQUEST
| sendto(): sent 300 bytes out
| tp_status after sending: SEND_REQUEST
| sendto(): sent 150 bytes out
| tp_status after sending: SEND_REQUEST
| sendto(): sent 150 bytes out
| tp_status after sending: SEND_REQUEST
| sendto(): sent 300 bytes out
| tp_status after sending: AVAILABLE
| sendto(): nothing sent!
| tp_status after sending: SEND_REQUEST
| sendto(): sent 150 bytes out
| tp_status after sending: SEND_REQUEST

Greetings, Phil
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