linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] sky2: receive dma mapping error handling

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Message-id: <4B650465.7010503@majjas.com>
Date:	Sat, 30 Jan 2010 23:17:41 -0500
From:	Michael Breuer <mbreuer@...jas.com>
To:	Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@...il.com>
Cc:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...ux-foundation.org>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	flyboy@...il.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, Michael Chan <mchan@...adcom.com>,
	Don Fry <pcnet32@...izon.net>,
	Francois Romieu <romieu@...zoreil.com>,
	Matt Carlson <mcarlson@...adcom.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sky2:  receive dma mapping error handling

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.
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