Re: 4.19-rc[23] iwlwifi: BUG in swiotlb

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Sun Sep 16 2018 - 05:41:47 EST


On Sun 2018-09-16 11:34:14, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
>
> > > Any ideas?
> >
> > Hmm. Is this new?
> >
> > > 2018-09-10T18:47:54.532837-07:00 dragon kernel: [ 31.472371] kernel BUG at ../kernel/dma/swiotlb.c:521!
> >
> > nslots = ALIGN(size, 1 << IO_TLB_SHIFT) >> IO_TLB_SHIFT;
> > [...]
> > BUG_ON(!nslots)
> >
> > > 2018-09-10T18:47:54.613655-07:00 dragon kernel: [ 31.490325] swiotlb_alloc+0x88/0x170
> > > 2018-09-10T18:47:54.613656-07:00 dragon kernel: [ 31.490329] ? __kmalloc+0x1cc/0x200
> > > 2018-09-10T18:47:54.613657-07:00 dragon kernel: [ 31.491652] iwl_pcie_txq_alloc+0x1d4/0x3b0 [iwlwifi]
> >
> > There are two calls to dma_alloc_coherent() here, should those even hit
> > swiotlb? The sizes of those should be
> > * 256 x 128 (32k)
> > * 32 x 256 (8k) [TFH, unlikely to be the case here]
> > * 256 x 256 (65k) [TFH]
> > * 32 x 64 (2k)
> > * 256 x 64 (16k)
> >
> >
> > IO_TLB_SHIFT is 11, so we get 2k alignment, so even the smallest size
> > (32*64) should result in nslots being 1?
> >
> > In fact, unless the driver passed *ZERO* as the size, this should never
> > happen (hence the BUG_ON), since ALIGN() would take care of rounding up
> > any smaller allocation here.
> >
> > Presumably you can reproduce this pretty easily (and I don't know what
> > specific model of NIC you have etc.), so perhaps you can do something
> > like this?
> >
> > https://p.sipsolutions.net/aa0dccd7a60fe176.txt
>
> That results in: ... if I'm not mistaken. Tested on top of today's
> mainline. (-rc3.95 :-)

Hold on. I was confused by my build system. Let me retry.

Are you sure you are not mistaking WARN and WARN_ON?



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