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Message-ID: <54C63585.1010908@vsis.cz>
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 13:39:33 +0100
From: Vlastimil Ĺ etka <setka@...s.cz>
To: vbridger@...nsource.altera.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Altera TSE (altera_tse) net_rx_action WARNING - polling bug in altera_tse_main.c?
Hello,
I am using Altera TSE kernel driver (altera_tse module) on Altera
socfpga platform (Cyclone V SoC with ARM Cortex-A9) and I probably
discovered a bug in it. I have two TSE controllers instantiated in FPGA
- my FPGA HW design is based on this tutorial:
http://www.rocketboards.org/foswiki/Projects/AlteraSoCTripleSpeedEthernetDesignExample
The kernel version is 3.10.37-ltsi with RT patch, from
http://rocketboards.org/gitweb/?p=linux-socfpga.git;a=commit;h=7ea94617cfae6a62ee963adc1ae340196dbe2b34
with backported some altera_tse fixes from current 3.19-rc5.
I was not able to get TSE ethernets working on vanilla 3.19-rc5,
probably because of some changes around interrupts and devicetree, but
it's another story.
After some time (minutes to hours) of exhaustive traffic generated by
iperf through altera_tse ethernet, I can see a kernel warning on console
like this:
------------[ cut here ]------------
WARNING: at net/core/dev.c:4255 net_rx_action+0x268/0x28c()
Modules linked in: gpio_altera altera_sysid altera_tse
CPU: 0 PID: 5885 Comm: irq/75-eth2 Not tainted
3.10.37-ltsi-rt37-vs-2-1-00062-g861955e #1
[<800166c4>] (unwind_backtrace+0x0/0x100) from [<80012edc>]
(show_stack+0x20/0x24)
[<80012edc>] (show_stack+0x20/0x24) from [<80503404>] (dump_stack+0x24/0x28)
[<80503404>] (dump_stack+0x24/0x28) from [<8002303c>]
(warn_slowpath_common+0x64/0x7c)
[<8002303c>] (warn_slowpath_common+0x64/0x7c) from [<80023110>]
(warn_slowpath_null+0x2c/0x34)
[<80023110>] (warn_slowpath_null+0x2c/0x34) from [<80404d48>]
(net_rx_action+0x268/0x28c)
[<80404d48>] (net_rx_action+0x268/0x28c) from [<8002bd18>]
(do_current_softirqs+0x1e4/0x388)
[<8002bd18>] (do_current_softirqs+0x1e4/0x388) from [<8002bf34>]
(local_bh_enable+0x78/0x90)
[<8002bf34>] (local_bh_enable+0x78/0x90) from [<80086c9c>]
(irq_forced_thread_fn+0x50/0x74)
[<80086c9c>] (irq_forced_thread_fn+0x50/0x74) from [<80086fbc>]
(irq_thread+0x16c/0x1c8)
[<80086fbc>] (irq_thread+0x16c/0x1c8) from [<80048104>] (kthread+0xb4/0xb8)
[<80048104>] (kthread+0xb4/0xb8) from [<8000e718>] (ret_from_fork+0x14/0x20)
---[ end trace 0000000000000002 ]---
The warning point is:
WARN_ON_ONCE(work > weight);
at
http://rocketboards.org/gitweb/?p=linux-socfpga.git;a=blob;f=net/core/dev.c;h=2193b5dc276ad6aa54adb1ee15ef3de625915fcd;hb=7ea94617cfae6a62ee963adc1ae340196dbe2b34#l4255
After a warning, interface is still working without problems.
I am not much familiar with Linux network stack and device drivers. But
I probably found a root cause in:
# drivers/net/ethernet/altera/altera_tse_main.c.
#
http://rocketboards.org/gitweb/?p=linux-socfpga.git;a=blob;f=drivers/net/ethernet/altera/altera_tse_main.c;h=07c0b193c55722d18ff2723f0a7e137671746ba1;hb=7ea94617cfae6a62ee963adc1ae340196dbe2b34#l368
static int tse_rx(struct altera_tse_private *priv, int limit)
the `limit` parameter is not used anywhere in the function! When
`tse_rx` is called from `tse_poll` it can return more frames than limit,
which in the end triggers the kernel warning as I think:
# drivers/net/ethernet/altera/altera_tse_main.c
#
http://rocketboards.org/gitweb/?p=linux-socfpga.git;a=blob;f=drivers/net/ethernet/altera/altera_tse_main.c;h=07c0b193c55722d18ff2723f0a7e137671746ba1;hb=7ea94617cfae6a62ee963adc1ae340196dbe2b34#l488
static int tse_poll(struct napi_struct *napi, int budget)
{
...
txcomplete = tse_tx_complete(priv);
rxcomplete = tse_rx(priv, budget);
if (rxcomplete >= budget || txcomplete > 0)
return rxcomplete;
Condition `if (rxcomplete >= budget || txcomplete > 0) return
rxcomplete;` is also very weird for me. I am not sure if it's buggy, but
I think it should be at least commented how it works.
Vlastimil Setka
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