netdev - Re: sun4i_handle_irq: WARNING at net/ipv4/tcp_input.c:2711 tcp_fastretrans

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Message-ID: <CACQ1gAinSoTCTtf9Y6TL=vtEm1jnJgis0n=y=frNtuPxue9-ng@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Thu, 17 Oct 2013 13:46:49 +0200
From:	Richard Genoud <richard.genoud@...il.com>
To:	Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@...e-electrons.com>
Cc:	Stefan Roese <sr@...x.de>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: sun4i_handle_irq: WARNING at net/ipv4/tcp_input.c:2711 tcp_fastretrans_alert

2013/8/23 Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@...e-electrons.com>:
> Hi Richard,
>
> On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 11:47:20AM +0200, Richard GENOUD wrote:
>> Hi Maxime, Stephan
>>
>> I just realise that, *sometimes*, I have some warnings on my cubieboard
>> (6 since the 22 of july, and the board is runnning 24/24).
>
> Wow, I'm impressed it worked this fine actually :)
>
>> It has happened also on 3.10 + emac patches.
>> Here it is:
>> [27224.060000] ------------[ cut here ]------------
>> [27224.070000] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 0 at net/ipv4/tcp_input.c:2711 tcp_fastretrans_alert+0x717/0x734()
>> [27224.080000] CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper Not tainted 3.11.0-rc6-00010-g54f11ec #8
>> [27224.080000] [<c000f231>] (unwind_backtrace+0x1/0x98) from [<c000e2b7>] (show_stack+0xb/0xc)
>> [27224.090000] [<c000e2b7>] (show_stack+0xb/0xc) from [<c0013cd3>] (warn_slowpath_common+0x43/0x5c)
>> [27224.100000] [<c0013cd3>] (warn_slowpath_common+0x43/0x5c) from [<c0013d6d>] (warn_slowpath_null+0x11/0x14)
>> [27224.110000] [<c0013d6d>] (warn_slowpath_null+0x11/0x14) from [<c015eadf>] (tcp_fastretrans_alert+0x717/0x734)
>> [27224.120000] [<c015eadf>] (tcp_fastretrans_alert+0x717/0x734) from [<c015f32b>] (tcp_ack+0x6af/0x984)
>> [27224.130000] [<c015f32b>] (tcp_ack+0x6af/0x984) from [<c015fcab>] (tcp_rcv_established+0x93/0x3ec)
>> [27224.140000] [<c015fcab>] (tcp_rcv_established+0x93/0x3ec) from [<c0165621>] (tcp_v4_do_rcv+0xa1/0x160)
>> [27224.150000] [<c0165621>] (tcp_v4_do_rcv+0xa1/0x160) from [<c0167129>] (tcp_v4_rcv+0x4e9/0x500)
>> [27224.160000] [<c0167129>] (tcp_v4_rcv+0x4e9/0x500) from [<c015025d>] (ip_local_deliver_finish+0x79/0x180)
>> [27224.170000] [<c015025d>] (ip_local_deliver_finish+0x79/0x180) from [<c01500a1>] (ip_rcv_finish+0xc9/0x20c)
>> [27224.180000] [<c01500a1>] (ip_rcv_finish+0xc9/0x20c) from [<c0129493>] (__netif_receive_skb_core+0x287/0x3dc)
>> [27224.190000] [<c0129493>] (__netif_receive_skb_core+0x287/0x3dc) from [<c0129a8b>] (process_backlog+0x5b/0xd0)
>> [27224.200000] [<c0129a8b>] (process_backlog+0x5b/0xd0) from [<c012bc6f>] (net_rx_action+0x5f/0xe8)
>> [27224.200000] [<c012bc6f>] (net_rx_action+0x5f/0xe8) from [<c0015fc9>] (__do_softirq+0x91/0x134)
>> [27224.210000] [<c0015fc9>] (__do_softirq+0x91/0x134) from [<c0016251>] (irq_exit+0x59/0x80)
>> [27224.220000] [<c0016251>] (irq_exit+0x59/0x80) from [<c000d00d>] (handle_IRQ+0x21/0x54)
>> [27224.230000] [<c000d00d>] (handle_IRQ+0x21/0x54) from [<c00083ef>] (sun4i_handle_irq+0x1f/0x30)
>> [27224.240000] [<c00083ef>] (sun4i_handle_irq+0x1f/0x30) from [<c000ea1b>] (__irq_svc+0x3b/0x5c)
>> [27224.250000] Exception stack(0xc0287f70 to 0xc0287fb8)
>> [27224.250000] 7f60:                                     00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
>> [27224.260000] 7f80: c0286000 c02ad7fd 00000001 c02ad7fd c028e084 413fc082 00000000 00000000
>> [27224.270000] 7fa0: 01000000 c0287fb8 c000d115 c000d116 40000033 ffffffff
>> [27224.270000] [<c000ea1b>] (__irq_svc+0x3b/0x5c) from [<c000d116>] (arch_cpu_idle+0x16/0x1c)
>> [27224.280000] [<c000d116>] (arch_cpu_idle+0x16/0x1c) from [<c002e69d>] (cpu_startup_entry+0x35/0xa0)
>> [27224.290000] [<c002e69d>] (cpu_startup_entry+0x35/0xa0) from [<c026f75f>] (start_kernel+0x1af/0x1f0)
>> [27224.300000] ---[ end trace 15641276e08fba8a ]---
>
> Hmmm, that seems pretty far from the network/interrupt drivers, and it
> looks like other users have seen this on !ARM machines:
> http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-7379928.html
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=989251
>
> There's a patch in the redhat's bugzilla, could you try to apply it and
> see if it solves your problem?
>
> Maybe the netdev guys will have other ideas as well.
For the record, I set:
net.ipv4.tcp_early_retrans = 2
net.ipv4.tcp_frto = 0
And I didn't see the warning any more.
It's seems that a patch is on it's way. I'll try it instead of setting
the sysctl.
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network/286793

Richard.
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