On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 08:07:17PM +0200, Yamagi Burmeister wrote:
> On Thu, 31 Mar 2011, YongHyeon PYUN wrote:
>
> >>All boxes are quadcore machines with 8GB RAM, running FreeBSD/amd64.
> >>After limiting the memory via hw.physmem to 3GB the problems are gone.
> >>The box is running crashfree for more than 6 hours and has served over
> >>300GB of data via age(4).
> >>
> >
> >Thanks for testing. Remove the hw.physmem configuration and try
> >attached patch and let me know how it goes.
>
> Thanks for your help, but the patch doesn't work. Another random panic -
> this time "page fault in kernel mode" - with nothing age(4) or network
> stack related stuff in the backtrace...
>
> Maybe it'll help to know about a bug fix in the linux atl1 driver, now
> replaced by atlx. In git commit 5f08e46b621a769e52a9545a23ab1d5fb2aec1d4
> 64 bit DMA was disabled:
>
> 64-bit DMA causes data corruption with atl1. We don't know why, and
> Atheros is working on it. For now, just use 32-bit DMA. This is a big
> hack that is probably wrong, but it stops the bleeding.
>
> There was no later follow up on it. I think that this can't be problem
> on FreeBSD but maybe I'm reading the driver code wrong. The kernel.org
> gitweb URL is:
>
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.23.y.git;a=commitdiff;h=5f08e46b621a769e52a9545a23ab1d5fb2aec1d4
>
Thanks a lot! It seems the L1 controller has data corruption issue
when 64bit DMA addressing is used. Try this one.
Index: sys/dev/age/if_age.c
===================================================================
--- sys/dev/age/if_age.c (revision 220116)
+++ sys/dev/age/if_age.c (working copy)
@@ -1092,10 +1092,13 @@
* Create Tx/Rx buffer parent tag.
* L1 supports full 64bit DMA addressing in Tx/Rx buffers
* so it needs separate parent DMA tag.
+ * XXX
+ * It seems enabling 64bit DMA causes data corruption. Limit
+ * DMA address space to 32bit.
*/
error = bus_dma_tag_create(
bus_get_dma_tag(sc->age_dev), /* parent */
- 1, 0, /* alignment, boundary */
+ BUS_SPACE_MAXADDR_32BIT, 0, /* alignment, boundary */
BUS_SPACE_MAXADDR, /* lowaddr */
BUS_SPACE_MAXADDR, /* highaddr */
NULL, NULL, /* filter, filterarg */
@@ -2452,6 +2455,9 @@
/* Update the consumer index. */
sc->age_cdata.age_rr_cons = rr_cons;
+ bus_dmamap_sync(sc->age_cdata.age_rx_ring_tag,
+ sc->age_cdata.age_rx_ring_map,
+ BUS_DMASYNC_PREREAD | BUS_DMASYNC_PREWRITE);
/* Sync descriptors. */
bus_dmamap_sync(sc->age_cdata.age_rr_ring_tag,
sc->age_cdata.age_rr_ring_map,
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