linux-kernel - "swiotlb buffer is full" with 3.13-rc1+ but not 3.4.

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Message-ID: <21144.47873.639231.96901@mariner.uk.xensource.com>
Date:	Fri, 29 Nov 2013 16:04:17 +0000
From:	Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@...citrix.com>
To:	<netdev@...r.kernel.org>, Michael Chan <mchan@...adcom.com>,
	<dl-mptfusionlinux@....com>, <linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org>,
	<support@....com>, Sreekanth Reddy <Sreekanth.Reddy@....com>,
	Nagalakshmi Nandigama <Nagalakshmi.Nandigama@....com>,
	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>,
	<xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: "swiotlb buffer is full" with 3.13-rc1+ but not 3.4.

I have a pair of machines (AMD) which, under Xen, produces a lot of
these messages and stops working:

 [ 1892.817406] mptsas 0000:03:00.0: swiotlb buffer is full
 [ 1892.817425] mptsas 0000:03:00.0: swiotlb buffer is full
 [ 1892.835403] mptsas 0000:03:00.0: swiotlb buffer is full

and in another run

 [  448.434824] bnx2 0000:02:00.0: swiotlb buffer is full
 [  448.676476] bnx2 0000:02:00.0: swiotlb buffer is full
 [  448.677237] bnx2 0000:02:00.0: swiotlb buffer is full

This is with e7c0d3dac88b ("v3.13-rc1-229-ge7c0d3d").  3.4.x works
fine.  I'm not sure exactly when it started happening; it seems to
only happen after some work is done on the host.  The bug is
host-specific, but appears to happen on both of my two identical
machines of this configuration, so probably isn't a hardware fault.
The hypervisor version is xen.git#e439e0b289e3.

The logs from a recent failure are here:
  http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~xensrcts/logs/22171/test-amd64-i386-pair/info.html
and here are the logs from the corresponding kernel build:
  http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~xensrcts/logs/22171/build-i386-pvops/info.html

The failing host in that test is gall-mite.  When you look at the
logs, you want to start at around  Nov 28 16:42:20.112715
in serial-gall-mite.log.0.

I have attached my kconfig, although it can be found above too.

Please let me know what more information I should collect.

Ian.

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