Hi Ali,

I was trying to compile the kernel again but I am not able to run this
command:
hg clone http://www.kernel.org/hg/linux-2.6/

Should I just download the kernel from the ftp repository?

Pritha

On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 6:40 PM, Ali Saidi <sa...@umich.edu> wrote:

> Hi Pritha,
>
> I really don't know. The kernel I tried was 2.6.27.6 and is a the
> mercurial repository of the linux kernel with the following patch queue
> applied: http://repo.m5sim.org/linux-patches There is nothing in there
> that touches the e1000 driver anymore.
>
> Ali
>
> On Feb 20, 2012, at 11:29 AM, Pritha Ghoshal wrote:
>
> 51061742000: drivesys.cpu + A0 T0 : @e1000_probe+608    : ldq
>  r16,680(r11)    : MemRead :  D=0x0000000000000000 A=0xfffffc00070242a8
> 51061747000: drivesys.cpu + A0 T0 : @tsunami_ioremap    : lda
>  r1,-3(r31)      : IntAlu :  D=0xfffffffffffffffd
> 51061747500: drivesys.cpu + A0 T0 : @tsunami_ioremap+4    : sll
>  r1,40,r1        : IntAlu :  D=0xfffffd0000000000
> 51061748000: drivesys.cpu + A0 T0 : @tsunami_ioremap+8    : addq
> r16,r1,r0       : IntAlu :  D=0xfffffd0000000000
> 51061749500: drivesys.cpu + A0 T0 : @e1000_probe+648    : stq
>  r0,752(r12)     : MemWrite :  D=0xfffffd0000000000 A=0xfffffc000722b930
>
> So the address is actually coming from a modified version of the value in
> R31. It is shifted left logically 40 bits and that's how the wrong address
> is generated. This value gets stored in address A=0xfffffc000722b930.
>
> I am still confused about how you don't see this error, do I have some old
> versions of files?
>
> Pritha
>
> On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 10:34 AM, Ali Saidi <sa...@umich.edu> wrote:
>
>> I wonder who wrote to A=0xfffffc000722b930 last. That would be the next
>> step in debugging this is to understand where the address got initially
>> generated from.
>>
>> Ali
>>
>> On Feb 18, 2012, at 9:28 PM, Pritha Ghoshal wrote:
>>
>> Hi Ali,
>>
>> So I think this is the relevant trace:
>> 51061923500: drivesys.cpu + A0 T0 : @e1000_probe+1412    : ldq
>>  r16,144(r30)    : MemRead :  D=0xfffffc000722b930 A=0xfffffc0007033c78
>> 51061927500: drivesys.cpu + A0 T0 : @e1000_set_media_type+20    : bis
>>    r31,r16,r9      : IntAlu :  D=0xfffffc000722b930
>> 51061942000: drivesys.cpu + A0 T0 : @e1000_set_media_type+184    : ldq
>>      r16,0(r9)       : MemRead :  D=0xfffffd0000000000 A=0xfffffc000722b930
>> 51061943000: drivesys.cpu + A0 T0 : @e1000_set_media_type+192    : lda
>>      r16,8(r16)      : IntAlu :  D=0xfffffd0000000008
>> 51061947500: drivesys.cpu + A0 T0 : @tsunami_readl    : ldl
>>  r0,0(r16)       : MemRead :
>>
>> The last line of code gets executed for the NSGige adapter as well, but
>> the previous part of the code which sets r16, sets a different value for
>> that adapter, as this is adapter specific code.
>>
>> I am not sure how to rectify the error still though..
>>
>> Pritha
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 5:47 PM, Ali Saidi <sa...@umich.edu> wrote:
>>
>>> If you get an execution trace right before this happens that might shed
>>> some light on it. Tracking how the address that is being used is assembled
>>> by the cpu is a good start.
>>>
>>> Nothing jumps out at me though, so I'm pretty confused why I don't see
>>> the problem and you do.
>>>
>>> Ali
>>>
>>> On Feb 16, 2012, at 4:57 PM, Pritha Ghoshal wrote:
>>>
>>> >
>>> >> Hi Pritha,
>>> >> I took a old kernel from when i published the original paper in 2009
>>> (2.6.27)
>>> > and it seems to work with the e1000 NIC if I just make the following
>>> change:
>>> >> diff -r ef8630054b5e configs/common/FSConfig.py---
>>> > a/configs/common/FSConfig.py  Tue Feb 14 14:15:30 2012 -0500+++
>>> > b/configs/common/FSConfig.py  Thu Feb 16 11:28:32 2012 -0600 <at>
>>>  <at>  -58,7
>>> > +58,7  <at>  <at>  def makeLinuxAlphaSystem(mem_mode, mdesc = None):
>>> > IO_address_space_base = 0x80000000000     class BaseTsunami(Tsunami):-
>>> > ethernet = NSGigE(pci_bus=0, pci_dev=1, pci_func=0)+        ethernet =
>>> > IGbE_e1000(pci_bus=0, pci_dev=1, pci_func=0)         ide =
>>> IdeController(disks=
>>> > [Parent.disk0, Parent.disk2],                             pci_func=0,
>>> pci_dev=0,
>>> > pci_bus=0)
>>> >> I don't know what kernel you're using but it's likely there is either
>>> an issue
>>> > with the configuration of it or perhaps something has broken in the
>>> alpha
>>> > branch.
>>> >> From an Alpha/Tsunami perspective, virtual addresses that start with
>>> ffffc map
>>> > to physical memory directly and addresses that start with ffffd map to
>>> the i/o.
>>> > I'd have to look at the tsunami memory map documentation which isn't
>>> close at
>>> > hand to what 80000000008 could be, but it doesn't seem right. You
>>> could use the
>>> > PCIDev Ethernet trace flags to understand what addresses the PCI
>>> devices are
>>> > getting assigned.
>>> >> Thanks,
>>> >> Ali
>>> >>
>>> >
>>> > Hi Ali,
>>> >
>>> > I had tried using the same modification in FSConfig.py, and even the
>>> kernel I am
>>> > using in 2.6.27. Should I try to build the kernel again and check?
>>> >
>>> > Regarding the addresses, I used the flag BusAddrRanges, I am not able
>>> to see any
>>> > of the address ranges mapped to the IOBus which starts from
>>> 0x80000000000. The
>>> > closest one I can see is:
>>> >     0: drivesys.tsunami.fake_OROM: registering range:
>>> 0x800000a0000-0x60000
>>> >      0: drivesys.iobus: Adding range 0x800000a0000 - 0x800000fffff for
>>> id 12
>>> > All the rest seem to be starting with 0x801**** instead of 0x800****.
>>> > For membus this is the range:
>>> >      0: drivesys.membus: Adding range 0x80000000000 -
>>> 0xffffffffffffffff for id
>>> > 2
>>> > So there is one range of addresses which are not mapped to anywhere on
>>> IO bus,
>>> > even though the
>>> >    IO_address_space_base = 0x80000000000
>>> > is set in FSConfig.py.
>>> > But the mapping of addresses do not change from NSGigE adapter
>>> mappings, and
>>> > there is no error in that case.
>>> >
>>> > I enabled Fetch flag to see the addresses being accessed before the
>>> error
>>> > condition, and in the e100 NIC, this is the faulting address:
>>> > 51061947500: drivesys.cpu: Fetch: PC:0xfffffc0000324800
>>> > 51061947500: drivesys.cpu: Address is fffffd0000000008, Physical
>>> address
>>> > 80000000008
>>> >
>>> > But in the case of NSGigE, the same address brings forward a different
>>> virtual
>>> > address for the read:
>>> > 51379655000: drivesys.cpu: Fetch: PC:0xfffffc0000324800
>>> > 51379655000: drivesys.cpu: Address is fffffd0009000018, Physical
>>> address
>>> > 80009000018
>>> >
>>> > For the other cases, the sequence addresses are identical in case of
>>> NSGigE and
>>> > IGbE_e1000 adapters. eg:
>>> > NSGigE:
>>> > 51690478500: drivesys.cpu: Fetch: PC:0xfffffc0000319ce4
>>> > 51690478500: drivesys.cpu: Address is fffffc000085e208, Physical
>>> address 85e208
>>> > e1000:
>>> > 51061946500: drivesys.cpu: Fetch: PC:0xfffffc0000319ce4
>>> > 51061946500: drivesys.cpu: Address is fffffc000085e208, Physical
>>> address 85e208
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > Could you give any pointer regarding where this faulty address is
>>> getting
>>> > generated for this particular case?
>>> >
>>> > Pritha
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
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