linux-kernel - Re: Zynq macb

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Message-ID: <53229584.7000100@monstr.eu>
Date:	Fri, 14 Mar 2014 06:37:08 +0100
From:	Michal Simek <monstr@...str.eu>
To:	Sören Brinkmann <soren.brinkmann@...inx.com>
CC:	Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@...el.com>,
	Anirudha Sarangi <anirudh@...inx.com>,
	Punnaiah Choudary Kalluri 
	<punnaiah.choudary.kalluri@...inx.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Zynq macb

On 03/13/2014 11:33 PM, Sören Brinkmann wrote:
> On Thu, 2014-03-13 at 03:16PM -0700, Sören Brinkmann wrote:
>> Hi Nicolas,
>>
>> I did some testing on the current linux-next tree and ran iperf on Zynq.
>> It seems that network and even the whole system can collapse when doing
>> that.
>> I don't really know what's going on, but once I saw the message:
>> 	"inconsistent Rx descriptor chain"
>> printed twice (system frozen afterwards).
>>
>> I don't know what exactly is going wrong, but suspect something around
>> memory/DMA. I have no clue whether it makes any sense or not, but I
>> tried using the macb_* functions instead of the gem_* ones (see diff below).
>> That seems to result in a stable system and working Ethernet.
> 
> That was a little too early. After roughly 25 minutest the system runs
> into a deadlock:
>   BUG: spinlock lockup suspected on CPU#1, iperf/774
>    lock: 0xeda0366c, .magic: dead4ead, .owner: swapper/0/0, .owner_cpu: 0
>   CPU: 1 PID: 774 Comm: iperf Tainted: G        W    3.14.0-rc6-next-20140312-xilinx-dirty #41
>   [<c00153c0>] (unwind_backtrace) from [<c0011e70>] (show_stack+0x10/0x14)
>   [<c0011e70>] (show_stack) from [<c03d6b50>] (dump_stack+0x80/0xcc)
>   [<c03d6b50>] (dump_stack) from [<c00670ac>] (do_raw_spin_lock+0xd4/0x190)
>   [<c00670ac>] (do_raw_spin_lock) from [<c03dc79c>] (_raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x58/0x64)
>   [<c03dc79c>] (_raw_spin_lock_irqsave) from [<c02b0810>] (macb_start_xmit+0x24/0x2d0)
>   [<c02b0810>] (macb_start_xmit) from [<c0321b10>] (dev_hard_start_xmit+0x334/0x470)
>   [<c0321b10>] (dev_hard_start_xmit) from [<c0339aa8>] (sch_direct_xmit+0x78/0x2f8)
>   [<c0339aa8>] (sch_direct_xmit) from [<c0321f60>] (__dev_queue_xmit+0x314/0x704)
>   [<c0321f60>] (__dev_queue_xmit) from [<c034cb3c>] (ip_finish_output+0x6c4/0x894)
>   [<c034cb3c>] (ip_finish_output) from [<c034cf24>] (ip_local_out+0x74/0x90)
>   [<c034cf24>] (ip_local_out) from [<c034d340>] (ip_queue_xmit+0x400/0x5c4)
>   [<c034d340>] (ip_queue_xmit) from [<c03634b8>] (tcp_transmit_skb+0xa18/0xab0)
>   [<c03634b8>] (tcp_transmit_skb) from [<c035856c>] (tcp_recvmsg+0x92c/0xae4)
>   [<c035856c>] (tcp_recvmsg) from [<c03806f0>] (inet_recvmsg+0x1c0/0x1fc)
>   [<c03806f0>] (inet_recvmsg) from [<c030769c>] (sock_recvmsg+0x7c/0x98)
>   [<c030769c>] (sock_recvmsg) from [<c0309988>] (SyS_recvfrom+0x9c/0x108)
>   [<c0309988>] (SyS_recvfrom) from [<c0309a08>] (sys_recv+0x14/0x18)
>   [<c0309a08>] (sys_recv) from [<c000ea60>] (ret_fast_syscall+0x0/0x48)

Do you have this change in your tree?
https://github.com/Xilinx/linux-xlnx/commit/1a85939af40acca2bf963407b497cc31c303ff3e

I don't think we have sent this to mainline yet.

Thanks,
Michal

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Maintainer of Linux kernel - Xilinx Zynq ARM architecture
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