netdev - Re: tg3 NIC driver bug in 3.14.x under Xen [and 3 more messages]

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Date:	Thu, 16 Apr 2015 18:15:47 +0100
From:	Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@...citrix.com>
To:	Michael Chan <mchan@...adcom.com>
CC:	<cascardo@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>, Prashant <prashant@...adcom.com>,
	"Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk" <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>,
	Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com>,
	David Vrabel <david.vrabel@...rix.com>,
	"Vlad Yasevich" <vyasevich@...il.com>,
	<xen-devel@...ts.xensource.com>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Siva Reddy (Siva) Kallam" <siva.kallam@...adcom.com>,
	Sanjeev Bansal <sanjeevb@...adcom.com>
Subject: Re: tg3 NIC driver bug in 3.14.x under Xen [and 3 more messages]

Michael Chan writes ("Re: tg3 NIC driver bug in 3.14.x under Xen [and 3 more messages]"):
> On Thu, 2015-04-16 at 09:24 -0300, cascardo@...ux.vnet.ibm.com wrote: 
> > Yes, this looks like the driver is not syncing the DMA buffers. Unmap is
> > supposed to synchronize as well.
> 
> For small rx packets (< 256 bytes), we sync the DMA buffer before we
> copy the data to another SKB.  For larger packets, we unmap the DMA
> buffer.  Do we see the corruption in both cases?

Yes, at least with swiotlb=force iommu=soft.

Ian.
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