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PATCH New Lubomir Rintel 4 participants 5 messages Dec 27, 2012 – Jan 26, 2013 dmaengine

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PATCH 1/1 dma: mv_xor: remove minimal offload length threshold

This fatally confuses dma_async_memcpy_buf_to_pg which thinks it signals an out of memory condition and retries indefinitelly, causing a soft lockup. The threshold does not seem to be enforced by hardware (couldn't find anything like that in a datasheet) and things seems to work fine without it. If there's a performance penalty, it probably should be dealt with in dmaengine.

The following crash (with too small skb structure being dma_memcpy()'d) is reprodcibly triggered by an accept() quickly followed by a read():
http://v3.sk/~lkundrak/so-beautiful/crasher.pl

BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 23s! [perl:715]
Modules linked in:
Pid: 715, comm:                 perl
CPU: 0    Not tainted  (3.6.7-2.fc18.armv5tel.kirkwood #1)
PC is at mv_xor_prep_dma_memcpy+0x14/0x168
LR is at dma_async_memcpy_pg_to_pg+0x100/0x1dc

sp : df197ce0 ip : c023816c fp : 00000000
r10: c09a6720 r9 : 0000012a r8 : 115d7000
r7 : ddd4f57c r6 : ddd4f57c r5 : ddd4f4a8 r4 : 00000034
r3 : 00000034 r2 : 115d7000 r1 : 116b912a r0 : ddd4f57c
Flags: nZCv IRQs on FIQs on Mode SVC_32 ISA ARM Segment user
Control: 0005397f Table: 1f218000 DAC: 00000015
[<c000edac>] (unwind_backtrace+0x0/0x124) from [<c0074ce4>] (watchdog_timer_fn+0xf0/0x144) [<c0074ce4>] (watchdog_timer_fn+0xf0/0x144) from [<c003aa10>] (__run_hrtimer+0xb0/0x1d4) [<c003aa10>] (__run_hrtimer+0xb0/0x1d4) from [<c003b224>] (hrtimer_interrupt+0x104/0x250) [<c003b224>] (hrtimer_interrupt+0x104/0x250) from [<c0016024>] (orion_timer_interrupt+0x24/0x34) [<c0016024>] (orion_timer_interrupt+0x24/0x34) from [<c0075470>] (handle_irq_event_percpu+0x38/0x23c) [<c0075470>] (handle_irq_event_percpu+0x38/0x23c) from [<c00756a4>] (handle_irq_event+0x30/0x40) [<c00756a4>] (handle_irq_event+0x30/0x40) from [<c0077cd4>] (handle_level_irq+0xcc/0xdc) [<c0077cd4>] (handle_level_irq+0xcc/0xdc) from [<c0074e9c>] (generic_handle_irq+0x28/0x38) [<c0074e9c>] (generic_handle_irq+0x28/0x38) from [<c0009b64>] (handle_IRQ+0x68/0x8c) [<c0009b64>] (handle_IRQ+0x68/0x8c) from [<c0444794>] (__irq_svc+0x34/0x78)
[<c0444794>] (__irq_svc+0x34/0x78) from [<c0238180>] (mv_xor_prep_dma_memcpy+0x14/0x168) [<c0238180>] (mv_xor_prep_dma_memcpy+0x14/0x168) from [<c0236010>] (dma_async_memcpy_pg_to_pg+0x100/0x1dc) [<c0236010>] (dma_async_memcpy_pg_to_pg+0x100/0x1dc) from [<c0237594>] (dma_memcpy_pg_to_iovec+0xf0/0x180) [<c0237594>] (dma_memcpy_pg_to_iovec+0xf0/0x180) from [<c03832f8>] (dma_skb_copy_datagram_iovec+0x100/0x1d4) [<c03832f8>] (dma_skb_copy_datagram_iovec+0x100/0x1d4) from [<c03a9950>] (tcp_recvmsg+0x630/0xac0) [<c03a9950>] (tcp_recvmsg+0x630/0xac0) from [<c03c8dd8>] (inet_recvmsg+0x48/0x5c) [<c03c8dd8>] (inet_recvmsg+0x48/0x5c) from [<c035ba54>] (sock_aio_read+0x100/0x120) [<c035ba54>] (sock_aio_read+0x100/0x120) from [<c00e53e0>] (do_sync_read+0x98/0xd4) [<c00e53e0>] (do_sync_read+0x98/0xd4) from [<c00e5d54>] (vfs_read+0xb4/0x184)
[<c00e5d54>] (vfs_read+0xb4/0x184) from [<c00e5e60>] (sys_read+0x3c/0x70)
[<c00e5e60>] (sys_read+0x3c/0x70) from [<c0008c60>] (ret_fast_syscall+0x0/0x2c)

Kernel panic - not syncing: softlockup: hung tasks
[<c000edac>] (unwind_backtrace+0x0/0x124) from [<c043e0ac>] (panic+0x80/0x1e0)
[<c043e0ac>] (panic+0x80/0x1e0) from [<c0074d08>] (watchdog_timer_fn+0x114/0x144)
[<c0074d08>] (watchdog_timer_fn+0x114/0x144) from [<c003aa10>] (__run_hrtimer+0xb0/0x1d4)
[<c003aa10>] (__run_hrtimer+0xb0/0x1d4) from [<c003b224>] (hrtimer_interrupt+0x104/0x250)
[<c003b224>] (hrtimer_interrupt+0x104/0x250) from [<c0016024>] (orion_timer_interrupt+0x24/0x34)
[<c0016024>] (orion_timer_interrupt+0x24/0x34) from [<c0075470>] (handle_irq_event_percpu+0x38/0x23c)
[<c0075470>] (handle_irq_event_percpu+0x38/0x23c) from [<c00756a4>] (handle_irq_event+0x30/0x40)
[<c00756a4>] (handle_irq_event+0x30/0x40) from [<c0077cd4>] (handle_level_irq+0xcc/0xdc)
[<c0077cd4>] (handle_level_irq+0xcc/0xdc) from [<c0074e9c>] (generic_handle_irq+0x28/0x38)
[<c0074e9c>] (generic_handle_irq+0x28/0x38) from [<c0009b64>] (handle_IRQ+0x68/0x8c)
[<c0009b64>] (handle_IRQ+0x68/0x8c) from [<c0444794>] (__irq_svc+0x34/0x78)
[<c0444794>] (__irq_svc+0x34/0x78) from [<c0238180>] (mv_xor_prep_dma_memcpy+0x14/0x168)
[<c0238180>] (mv_xor_prep_dma_memcpy+0x14/0x168) from [<c0236010>] (dma_async_memcpy_pg_to_pg+0x100/0x1dc)
[<c0236010>] (dma_async_memcpy_pg_to_pg+0x100/0x1dc) from [<c0237594>] (dma_memcpy_pg_to_iovec+0xf0/0x180)
[<c0237594>] (dma_memcpy_pg_to_iovec+0xf0/0x180) from [<c03832f8>] (dma_skb_copy_datagram_iovec+0x100/0x1d4)
[<c03832f8>] (dma_skb_copy_datagram_iovec+0x100/0x1d4) from [<c03a9950>] (tcp_recvmsg+0x630/0xac0)
[<c03a9950>] (tcp_recvmsg+0x630/0xac0) from [<c03c8dd8>] (inet_recvmsg+0x48/0x5c)
[<c03c8dd8>] (inet_recvmsg+0x48/0x5c) from [<c035ba54>] (sock_aio_read+0x100/0x120)
[<c035ba54>] (sock_aio_read+0x100/0x120) from [<c00e53e0>] (do_sync_read+0x98/0xd4)
[<c00e53e0>] (do_sync_read+0x98/0xd4) from [<c00e5d54>] (vfs_read+0xb4/0x184)
[<c00e5d54>] (vfs_read+0xb4/0x184) from [<c00e5e60>] (sys_read+0x3c/0x70)
[<c00e5e60>] (sys_read+0x3c/0x70) from [<c0008c60>] (ret_fast_syscall+0x0/0x2c)

Rebooting in 1 seconds..

---
 drivers/dma/mv_xor.c |    7 -------
 drivers/dma/mv_xor.h |    1 -
 2 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
drivers/dma/mv_xor.c +0 -7
index f642d8b..123c423 100644
@@ -665,8 +665,6 @@ mv_xor_prep_dma_memcpy(struct dma_chan *chan, dma_addr_t dest, dma_addr_t src,
 	dev_dbg(mv_chan_to_devp(mv_chan),
 		"%s dest: %x src %x len: %u flags: %ld\n",
 		__func__, dest, src, len, flags);
-	if (unlikely(len < MV_XOR_MIN_BYTE_COUNT))
-		return NULL;
 
 	BUG_ON(len > MV_XOR_MAX_BYTE_COUNT);
 
@@ -704,8 +702,6 @@ mv_xor_prep_dma_memset(struct dma_chan *chan, dma_addr_t dest, int value,
 	dev_dbg(mv_chan_to_devp(mv_chan),
 		"%s dest: %x len: %u flags: %ld\n",
 		__func__, dest, len, flags);
-	if (unlikely(len < MV_XOR_MIN_BYTE_COUNT))
-		return NULL;
 
 	BUG_ON(len > MV_XOR_MAX_BYTE_COUNT);
 
@@ -738,9 +734,6 @@ mv_xor_prep_dma_xor(struct dma_chan *chan, dma_addr_t dest, dma_addr_t *src,
 	struct mv_xor_desc_slot *sw_desc, *grp_start;
 	int slot_cnt;
 
-	if (unlikely(len < MV_XOR_MIN_BYTE_COUNT))
-		return NULL;
-
 	BUG_ON(len > MV_XOR_MAX_BYTE_COUNT);
 
 	dev_dbg(mv_chan_to_devp(mv_chan),
drivers/dma/mv_xor.h +0 -1
index c632a47..4e5bfaf 100644
@@ -163,7 +163,6 @@ struct mv_xor_desc {
 #define mv_hw_desc_slot_idx(hw_desc, idx)	\
 	((void *)(((unsigned long)hw_desc) + ((idx) << 5)))
 
-#define MV_XOR_MIN_BYTE_COUNT	(128)
 #define XOR_MAX_BYTE_COUNT	((16 * 1024 * 1024) - 1)
 #define MV_XOR_MAX_BYTE_COUNT	XOR_MAX_BYTE_COUNT
 
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#1 lore raw

PATCH 1/1 dma: mv_xor: remove minimal offload length threshold

Quoted 2 lines · Lubomir Rintel

This fatally confuses dma_async_memcpy_buf_to_pg which thinks it signals an out of memory condition and retries indefinitelly, causing a soft lockup.

More of these here, it seems:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=845143

#2 lore raw

PATCH 1/1 dma: mv_xor: remove minimal offload length threshold

In reply to Lubomir Rintel
Quoted 4 lines · Lubomir Rintel

of memory condition and retries indefinitelly, causing a soft lockup. The threshold does not seem to be enforced by hardware (couldn't find anything like that in a datasheet)

page 212

Table 63: Descriptor Byte Count Word

3:0 ByteCount

XOR mode: Size of source and destination blocks in bytes. CRC mode: Size of source block part represented by the descriptor. DMA mode: Size of source and destination block in bytes. Minimum blocks' size: 16B.
Maximum blocks' size: 16MB-1

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and things seems to work fine without it. If there's a

my guess is that it transfers 16B so it seems to work but actually corrupts data.

maybe we should teach net_dma_find_channel() about that limitation

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Maxime
#3 lore raw

PATCH 1/1 dma: mv_xor: remove minimal offload length threshold

Quoted 19 lines · Maxime Bizon <mbizon <at> freebox.fr> writes:
Quoted 4 lines · Lubomir Rintel

of memory condition and retries indefinitelly, causing a soft lockup. The threshold does not seem to be enforced by hardware (couldn't find anything like that in a datasheet)

page 212

Table 63: Descriptor Byte Count Word

3:0 ByteCount

XOR mode: Size of source and destination blocks in bytes. CRC mode: Size of source block part represented by the descriptor. DMA mode: Size of source and destination block in bytes. Minimum blocks' size: 16B.
Maximum blocks' size: 16MB-1

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and things seems to work fine without it. If there's a

my guess is that it transfers 16B so it seems to work but actually corrupts data.

maybe we should teach net_dma_find_channel() about that limitation

I observe the same error with the Marvell SoC 88F6282. The patch works. It is sufficient to just change the #define MV_XOR_MIN_BYTE_COUNT of 128 to 16. But I'm not very familiar with the code and Marvell xor/dma engine. Therefore the questions: Is the patch correctly for the SoC 88F6282? Is the error still in work? And is there an offical solution soon?

Kind regards,

Mario Schuknecht

#4 lore raw

PATCH 1/1 dma: mv_xor: remove minimal offload length threshold

In reply to Lubomir Rintel
Quoted 66 lines · Lubomir Rintel

This fatally confuses dma_async_memcpy_buf_to_pg which thinks it signals an out of memory condition and retries indefinitelly, causing a soft lockup. The threshold does not seem to be enforced by hardware (couldn't find anything like that in a datasheet) and things seems to work fine without it. If there's a performance penalty, it probably should be dealt with in dmaengine.

The following crash (with too small skb structure being dma_memcpy()'d) is reprodcibly triggered by an accept() quickly followed by a read():
http://v3.sk/~lkundrak/so-beautiful/crasher.pl

BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 23s! [perl:715]
Modules linked in:
Pid: 715, comm:                 perl
CPU: 0    Not tainted  (3.6.7-2.fc18.armv5tel.kirkwood #1)
PC is at mv_xor_prep_dma_memcpy+0x14/0x168
LR is at dma_async_memcpy_pg_to_pg+0x100/0x1dc

sp : df197ce0 ip : c023816c fp : 00000000
r10: c09a6720 r9 : 0000012a r8 : 115d7000
r7 : ddd4f57c r6 : ddd4f57c r5 : ddd4f4a8 r4 : 00000034
r3 : 00000034 r2 : 115d7000 r1 : 116b912a r0 : ddd4f57c
Flags: nZCv IRQs on FIQs on Mode SVC_32 ISA ARM Segment user
Control: 0005397f Table: 1f218000 DAC: 00000015
[<c000edac>] (unwind_backtrace+0x0/0x124) from [<c0074ce4>] (watchdog_timer_fn+0xf0/0x144) [<c0074ce4>] (watchdog_timer_fn+0xf0/0x144) from [<c003aa10>] (__run_hrtimer+0xb0/0x1d4) [<c003aa10>] (__run_hrtimer+0xb0/0x1d4) from [<c003b224>] (hrtimer_interrupt+0x104/0x250) [<c003b224>] (hrtimer_interrupt+0x104/0x250) from [<c0016024>] (orion_timer_interrupt+0x24/0x34) [<c0016024>] (orion_timer_interrupt+0x24/0x34) from [<c0075470>] (handle_irq_event_percpu+0x38/0x23c) [<c0075470>] (handle_irq_event_percpu+0x38/0x23c) from [<c00756a4>] (handle_irq_event+0x30/0x40) [<c00756a4>] (handle_irq_event+0x30/0x40) from [<c0077cd4>] (handle_level_irq+0xcc/0xdc) [<c0077cd4>] (handle_level_irq+0xcc/0xdc) from [<c0074e9c>] (generic_handle_irq+0x28/0x38) [<c0074e9c>] (generic_handle_irq+0x28/0x38) from [<c0009b64>] (handle_IRQ+0x68/0x8c) [<c0009b64>] (handle_IRQ+0x68/0x8c) from [<c0444794>] (__irq_svc+0x34/0x78)
[<c0444794>] (__irq_svc+0x34/0x78) from [<c0238180>] (mv_xor_prep_dma_memcpy+0x14/0x168) [<c0238180>] (mv_xor_prep_dma_memcpy+0x14/0x168) from [<c0236010>] (dma_async_memcpy_pg_to_pg+0x100/0x1dc) [<c0236010>] (dma_async_memcpy_pg_to_pg+0x100/0x1dc) from [<c0237594>] (dma_memcpy_pg_to_iovec+0xf0/0x180) [<c0237594>] (dma_memcpy_pg_to_iovec+0xf0/0x180) from [<c03832f8>] (dma_skb_copy_datagram_iovec+0x100/0x1d4) [<c03832f8>] (dma_skb_copy_datagram_iovec+0x100/0x1d4) from [<c03a9950>] (tcp_recvmsg+0x630/0xac0) [<c03a9950>] (tcp_recvmsg+0x630/0xac0) from [<c03c8dd8>] (inet_recvmsg+0x48/0x5c) [<c03c8dd8>] (inet_recvmsg+0x48/0x5c) from [<c035ba54>] (sock_aio_read+0x100/0x120) [<c035ba54>] (sock_aio_read+0x100/0x120) from [<c00e53e0>] (do_sync_read+0x98/0xd4) [<c00e53e0>] (do_sync_read+0x98/0xd4) from [<c00e5d54>] (vfs_read+0xb4/0x184)
[<c00e5d54>] (vfs_read+0xb4/0x184) from [<c00e5e60>] (sys_read+0x3c/0x70)
[<c00e5e60>] (sys_read+0x3c/0x70) from [<c0008c60>] (ret_fast_syscall+0x0/0x2c)

Kernel panic - not syncing: softlockup: hung tasks
[<c000edac>] (unwind_backtrace+0x0/0x124) from [<c043e0ac>] (panic+0x80/0x1e0)
[<c043e0ac>] (panic+0x80/0x1e0) from [<c0074d08>] (watchdog_timer_fn+0x114/0x144)
[<c0074d08>] (watchdog_timer_fn+0x114/0x144) from [<c003aa10>] (__run_hrtimer+0xb0/0x1d4)
[<c003aa10>] (__run_hrtimer+0xb0/0x1d4) from [<c003b224>] (hrtimer_interrupt+0x104/0x250)
[<c003b224>] (hrtimer_interrupt+0x104/0x250) from [<c0016024>] (orion_timer_interrupt+0x24/0x34)
[<c0016024>] (orion_timer_interrupt+0x24/0x34) from [<c0075470>] (handle_irq_event_percpu+0x38/0x23c)
[<c0075470>] (handle_irq_event_percpu+0x38/0x23c) from [<c00756a4>] (handle_irq_event+0x30/0x40)
[<c00756a4>] (handle_irq_event+0x30/0x40) from [<c0077cd4>] (handle_level_irq+0xcc/0xdc)
[<c0077cd4>] (handle_level_irq+0xcc/0xdc) from [<c0074e9c>] (generic_handle_irq+0x28/0x38)
[<c0074e9c>] (generic_handle_irq+0x28/0x38) from [<c0009b64>] (handle_IRQ+0x68/0x8c)
[<c0009b64>] (handle_IRQ+0x68/0x8c) from [<c0444794>] (__irq_svc+0x34/0x78)
[<c0444794>] (__irq_svc+0x34/0x78) from [<c0238180>] (mv_xor_prep_dma_memcpy+0x14/0x168)
[<c0238180>] (mv_xor_prep_dma_memcpy+0x14/0x168) from [<c0236010>] (dma_async_memcpy_pg_to_pg+0x100/0x1dc)
[<c0236010>] (dma_async_memcpy_pg_to_pg+0x100/0x1dc) from [<c0237594>] (dma_memcpy_pg_to_iovec+0xf0/0x180)
[<c0237594>] (dma_memcpy_pg_to_iovec+0xf0/0x180) from [<c03832f8>] (dma_skb_copy_datagram_iovec+0x100/0x1d4)
[<c03832f8>] (dma_skb_copy_datagram_iovec+0x100/0x1d4) from [<c03a9950>] (tcp_recvmsg+0x630/0xac0)
[<c03a9950>] (tcp_recvmsg+0x630/0xac0) from [<c03c8dd8>] (inet_recvmsg+0x48/0x5c)
[<c03c8dd8>] (inet_recvmsg+0x48/0x5c) from [<c035ba54>] (sock_aio_read+0x100/0x120)
[<c035ba54>] (sock_aio_read+0x100/0x120) from [<c00e53e0>] (do_sync_read+0x98/0xd4)
[<c00e53e0>] (do_sync_read+0x98/0xd4) from [<c00e5d54>] (vfs_read+0xb4/0x184)
[<c00e5d54>] (vfs_read+0xb4/0x184) from [<c00e5e60>] (sys_read+0x3c/0x70)
[<c00e5e60>] (sys_read+0x3c/0x70) from [<c0008c60>] (ret_fast_syscall+0x0/0x2c)
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Rebooting in 1 seconds..

---
 drivers/dma/mv_xor.c |    7 -------
 drivers/dma/mv_xor.h |    1 -
 2 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

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