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SubjectRe: [PATCH] sky2: Fix WARNING: at lib/dma-debug.c:902 check_sync
On 1/21/2010 3:41 PM, Jarek Poplawski wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 02:59:19PM -0500, Michael Breuer wrote:
>
>> On 1/20/2010 4:41 AM, Jarek Poplawski wrote:
>>
>>> [ previously: Re: [PATCH] af_packet: Don't use skb after dev_queue_xmit() ]
>>> diff --git a/drivers/net/sky2.c b/drivers/net/sky2.c
>>> index 7650f73..cdebdd3 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/net/sky2.c
>>> +++ b/drivers/net/sky2.c
>>> @@ -2252,12 +2252,14 @@ static struct sk_buff *receive_copy(struct sky2_port *sky2,
>>> skb = netdev_alloc_skb_ip_align(sky2->netdev, length);
>>> if (likely(skb)) {
>>> pci_dma_sync_single_for_cpu(sky2->hw->pdev, re->data_addr,
>>> - length, PCI_DMA_FROMDEVICE);
>>> + pci_unmap_len(re, data_size),
>>> + PCI_DMA_FROMDEVICE);
>>> skb_copy_from_linear_data(re->skb, skb->data, length);
>>> skb->ip_summed = re->skb->ip_summed;
>>> skb->csum = re->skb->csum;
>>> pci_dma_sync_single_for_device(sky2->hw->pdev, re->data_addr,
>>> - length, PCI_DMA_FROMDEVICE);
>>> + pci_unmap_len(re, data_size),
>>> + PCI_DMA_FROMDEVICE);
>>> re->skb->ip_summed = CHECKSUM_NONE;
>>> skb_put(skb, length);
>>> }
>>>
>> Just a testing update: I went back to CONFIG_DMAR=Y yesterday and
>> have not (yet) encountered the sky2 crash I'd been having prior to
>> this fix. I've been pumping traffic through, and based on pre-patch
>> experience, it would likely have crashed by now.
>>
>> Will keep the system up for the next couple of days w/o reboot to
>> confirm that the sky2 lockup I'd been seeing has stopped happening
>> with this patch.
>>
>> Test notes:
>>
>> 1) Warning previously apparent on start (dma_debug check_sync) with
>> CONFIG_DMAR=n is gone.
>> 2) W/o the above patch, I was getting sky2 DMAR errors and
>> subsequent TX hangs requiring reboot to clear. The hangs happened
>> after at least 12 hours of uptime, and under RX load at the time of
>> the hang.
>> 3) With the above patch (and no other changes) I have not been able
>> to recreate the crash - the system is stable.
>>
> Btw, could you remind us if during last dmar bugs jumbo frames might
> have been used or maybe mtu was changed, and the current test setting?
>
>
I've hit this with and without Jumbo frames enabled. Last couple of
recreations were with mtu = 1500, which is how I'm running now.
>> I have been following the discussion about the DMA api would suggest
>> that the length issue when DMAR is enabled is less innocuous than
>> previously believed.
>>
> Actually, the last conclusions are - it's more innocuous than ever
> believed, and I completely agree with this (at least until the next
> week ;-).
>
I stand grammatically corrected.
> Thanks,
> Jarek P.
>



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