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Message-ID: <BN8PR12MB326661846D53AAEE315A7434D3C40@BN8PR12MB3266.namprd12.prod.outlook.com>
Date:   Mon, 22 Jul 2019 11:39:21 +0000
From:   Jose Abreu <Jose.Abreu@...opsys.com>
To:     Lars Persson <lists@...h.nu>,
        Ilias Apalodimas <ilias.apalodimas@...aro.org>,
        Jon Hunter <jonathanh@...dia.com>
CC:     Jose Abreu <Jose.Abreu@...opsys.com>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-stm32@...md-mailman.stormreply.com" 
        <linux-stm32@...md-mailman.stormreply.com>,
        "linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
        <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
        Joao Pinto <Joao.Pinto@...opsys.com>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Giuseppe Cavallaro <peppe.cavallaro@...com>,
        Alexandre Torgue <alexandre.torgue@...com>,
        Maxime Coquelin <mcoquelin.stm32@...il.com>,
        Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@...tlin.com>,
        Chen-Yu Tsai <wens@...e.org>,
        linux-tegra <linux-tegra@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH net-next 3/3] net: stmmac: Introducing support for Page
 Pool

From: Lars Persson <lists@...h.nu>
Date: Jul/22/2019, 12:11:50 (UTC+00:00)

> On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 12:18 PM Ilias Apalodimas
> <ilias.apalodimas@...aro.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Jul 18, 2019 at 07:48:04AM +0000, Jose Abreu wrote:
> > > From: Jon Hunter <jonathanh@...dia.com>
> > > Date: Jul/17/2019, 19:58:53 (UTC+00:00)
> > >
> > > > Let me know if you have any thoughts.
> > >
> > > Can you try attached patch ?
> > >
> >
> > The log says  someone calls panic() right?
> > Can we trye and figure were that happens during the stmmac init phase?
> >
> 
> The reason for the panic is hidden in this one line of the kernel logs:
> Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! exitcode=0x0000000b
> 
> The init process is killed by SIGSEGV (signal 11 = 0xb).
> 
> I would suggest you look for data corruption bugs in the RX path. If
> the code is fetched from the NFS mount then a corrupt RX buffer can
> trigger a crash in userspace.
> 
> /Lars


Jon, I'm not familiar with ARM. Are the buffer addresses being allocated 
in a coherent region ? Can you try attached patch which adds full memory 
barrier before the sync ?

---
Thanks,
Jose Miguel Abreu

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