netdev - Re: NFS corruption, fixed by echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/drop

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Date:   Fri, 08 Dec 2017 13:16:21 -0800
From:   Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:     Matt Turner <mattst88@...il.com>
Cc:     Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        "linux-mips@...ux-mips.org" <linux-mips@...ux-mips.org>,
        linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
        Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>,
        "Peter Zijlstra (Intel)" <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Manuel Lauss <manuel.lauss@...il.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: NFS corruption, fixed by echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches --
 next debugging steps?

On Fri, 2017-12-08 at 12:26 -0800, Matt Turner wrote:
> 
> Thanks for the quick reply!
> 
> I tried the patch on top of master, but unfortunately the corruption
> still occurs.

You might try replacing in sbdma_add_rcvbuffer()

sb_new = netdev_alloc_skb(dev, size);

by 

sb_new = alloc_skb(size, GFP_ATOMIC);

Maybe the device does not like having a frame spanning 2 pages.