Re: [PATCH RESEND net-next 1/2] dpaa2-eth: send a scatter-gather FD instead of realloc-ing

From: Ioana Ciornei
Date: Fri Dec 11 2020 - 09:03:53 EST

On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 08:06:36PM +0200, Ioana Ciornei wrote:
> [Added also the netdev mailing list, I haven't heard of linux-netdev
> before but kept it]
>
> On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 05:31:56PM +0000, Daniel Thompson wrote:
> > Hi Ioana
>
> Hi Daniel,
>
> >
> > On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 06:47:11PM +0000, Ioana Ciornei wrote:
> > > Instead of realloc-ing the skb on the Tx path when the provided headroom
> > > is smaller than the HW requirements, create a Scatter/Gather frame
> > > descriptor with only one entry.
> > >
> > > Remove the '[drv] tx realloc frames' counter exposed previously through
> > > ethtool since it is no longer used.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Ioana Ciornei <ioana.ciornei@xxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> >
> > I've been chasing down a networking regression on my LX2160A board
> > (Honeycomb LX2K based on CEx7 LX2160A COM) that first appeared in v5.9.
> >
> > It makes the board unreliable opening outbound connections meaning
> > things like `apt update` or `git fetch` often can't open the connection.
> > It does not happen all the time but is sufficient to make the boards
> > built-in networking useless for workstation use.
> >
> > The problem is strongly linked to warnings in the logs so I used the
> > warnings to bisect down to locate the cause of the regression and it
> > pinpointed this patch. I have confirmed that in both v5.9 and v5.10-rc7
> > that reverting this patch (and fixing up the merge issues) fixes the
> > regression and the warnings stop appearing.
> >
> > A typical example of the warning is below (io-pgtable-arm.c:281 is an
> > error path that I guess would cause dma_map_page_attrs() to return
> > an error):
> >
> > [ 714.464927] WARNING: CPU: 13 PID: 0 at
> > drivers/iommu/io-pgtable-arm.c:281 __arm_lpae_map+0x2d4/0x30c
> > [ 714.464930] Modules linked in: snd_seq_dummy(E) snd_hrtimer(E)
> > snd_seq(E) snd_seq_device(E) snd_timer(E) snd(E) soundcore(E) bridge(E)
> > stp(E) llc(E) rfkill(E) caam_jr(E) crypto_engine(E) rng_core(E)
> > joydev(E) evdev(E) dpaa2_caam(E) caamhash_desc(E) caamalg_desc(E)
> > authenc(E) libdes(E) dpaa2_console(E) ofpart(E) caam(E) sg(E) error(E)
> > lm90(E) at24(E) spi_nor(E) mtd(E) sbsa_gwdt(E) qoriq_thermal(E)
> > layerscape_edac_mod(E) qoriq_cpufreq(E) drm(E) fuse(E) configfs(E)
> > ip_tables(E) x_tables(E) autofs4(E) ext4(E) crc32c_generic(E) crc16(E)
> > mbcache(E) jbd2(E) hid_generic(E) usbhid(E) hid(E) dm_crypt(E) dm_mod(E)
> > sd_mod(E) fsl_dpaa2_ptp(E) ptp_qoriq(E) fsl_dpaa2_eth(E)
> > xhci_plat_hcd(E) xhci_hcd(E) usbcore(E) aes_ce_blk(E) crypto_simd(E)
> > cryptd(E) aes_ce_cipher(E) ghash_ce(E) gf128mul(E) at803x(E) libaes(E)
> > fsl_mc_dpio(E) pcs_lynx(E) rtc_pcf2127(E) sha2_ce(E) phylink(E)
> > xgmac_mdio(E) regmap_spi(E) of_mdio(E) sha256_arm64(E)
> > i2c_mux_pca954x(E) fixed_phy(E) i2c_mux(E) sha1_ce(E) ptp(E) libphy(E)
> > [ 714.465131] pps_core(E) ahci_qoriq(E) libahci_platform(E) nvme(E)
> > libahci(E) nvme_core(E) t10_pi(E) libata(E) crc_t10dif(E)
> > crct10dif_generic(E) crct10dif_common(E) dwc3(E) scsi_mod(E) udc_core(E)
> > roles(E) ulpi(E) sdhci_of_esdhc(E) sdhci_pltfm(E) sdhci(E)
> > spi_nxp_fspi(E) i2c_imx(E) fixed(E)
> > [ 714.465192] CPU: 13 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/13 Tainted: G W E
> > 5.10.0-rc7-00001-gba98d13279ca #52
> > [ 714.465196] Hardware name: SolidRun LX2160A Honeycomb (DT)
> > [ 714.465202] pstate: 60000005 (nZCv daif -PAN -UAO -TCO BTYPE=--)
> > [ 714.465207] pc : __arm_lpae_map+0x2d4/0x30c
> > [ 714.465211] lr : __arm_lpae_map+0x114/0x30c
> > [ 714.465215] sp : ffff80001006b340
> > [ 714.465219] x29: ffff80001006b340 x28: 0000002086538003
> > [ 714.465227] x27: 0000000000000a20 x26: 0000000000001000
> > [ 714.465236] x25: 0000000000000f44 x24: 00000020adf8d000
> > [ 714.465245] x23: 0000000000000001 x22: 0000fffffaeca000
> > [ 714.465253] x21: 0000000000000003 x20: ffff19b60d64d200
> > [ 714.465261] x19: 00000000000000ca x18: 0000000000000000
> > [ 714.465270] x17: 0000000000000000 x16: ffffcccb7cf3ca20
> > [ 714.465278] x15: 0000000000000000 x14: 0000000000000000
> > [ 714.465286] x13: 0000000000000003 x12: 0000000000000010
> > [ 714.465294] x11: 0000000000000000 x10: 0000000000000002
> > [ 714.465302] x9 : ffffcccb7d5b6e78 x8 : 00000000000001ff
> > [ 714.465311] x7 : ffff19b606538650 x6 : ffff19b606538000
> > [ 714.465319] x5 : 0000000000000009 x4 : 0000000000000f44
> > [ 714.465327] x3 : 0000000000001000 x2 : 00000020adf8d000
> > [ 714.465335] x1 : 0000000000000002 x0 : 0000000000000003
> > [ 714.465343] Call trace:
> > [ 714.465348] __arm_lpae_map+0x2d4/0x30c
> > [ 714.465353] __arm_lpae_map+0x114/0x30c
> > [ 714.465357] __arm_lpae_map+0x114/0x30c
> > [ 714.465362] __arm_lpae_map+0x114/0x30c
> > [ 714.465366] arm_lpae_map+0xf4/0x180
> > [ 714.465373] arm_smmu_map+0x4c/0xc0
> > [ 714.465379] __iommu_map+0x100/0x2bc
> > [ 714.465385] iommu_map_atomic+0x20/0x30
> > [ 714.465391] __iommu_dma_map+0xb0/0x110
> > [ 714.465397] iommu_dma_map_page+0xb8/0x120
> > [ 714.465404] dma_map_page_attrs+0x1a8/0x210
> > [ 714.465413] __dpaa2_eth_tx+0x384/0xbd0 [fsl_dpaa2_eth]
> > [ 714.465421] dpaa2_eth_tx+0x84/0x134 [fsl_dpaa2_eth]
> > [ 714.465427] dev_hard_start_xmit+0x10c/0x2b0
> > [ 714.465433] sch_direct_xmit+0x1a0/0x550
> > [ 714.465438] __qdisc_run+0x140/0x670
> > [ 714.465443] __dev_queue_xmit+0x6c4/0xa74
> > [ 714.465449] dev_queue_xmit+0x20/0x2c
> > [ 714.465463] br_dev_queue_push_xmit+0xc4/0x1a0 [bridge]
> > [ 714.465476] br_forward_finish+0xdc/0xf0 [bridge]
> > [ 714.465489] __br_forward+0x160/0x1c0 [bridge]
> > [ 714.465502] br_forward+0x13c/0x160 [bridge]
> > [ 714.465514] br_dev_xmit+0x228/0x3b0 [bridge]
> > [ 714.465520] dev_hard_start_xmit+0x10c/0x2b0
> > [ 714.465526] __dev_queue_xmit+0x8f0/0xa74
> > [ 714.465531] dev_queue_xmit+0x20/0x2c
> > [ 714.465538] arp_xmit+0xc0/0xd0
> > [ 714.465544] arp_send_dst+0x78/0xa0
> > [ 714.465550] arp_solicit+0xf4/0x260
> > [ 714.465554] neigh_probe+0x64/0xb0
> > [ 714.465560] neigh_timer_handler+0x2f4/0x400
> > [ 714.465566] call_timer_fn+0x3c/0x184
> > [ 714.465572] __run_timers.part.0+0x2bc/0x370
> > [ 714.465578] run_timer_softirq+0x48/0x80
> > [ 714.465583] __do_softirq+0x120/0x36c
> > [ 714.465589] irq_exit+0xac/0x100
> > [ 714.465596] __handle_domain_irq+0x8c/0xf0
> > [ 714.465600] gic_handle_irq+0xcc/0x14c
> > [ 714.465605] el1_irq+0xc4/0x180
> > [ 714.465610] arch_cpu_idle+0x18/0x30
> > [ 714.465617] default_idle_call+0x4c/0x180
> > [ 714.465623] do_idle+0x238/0x2b0
> > [ 714.465629] cpu_startup_entry+0x30/0xa0
> > [ 714.465636] secondary_start_kernel+0x134/0x180
> > [ 714.465640] ---[ end trace a84a7f61b559005f ]---
> >
> >
> > Given it is the iommu code that is provoking the warning I should
> > probably mention that the board I have requires
> > arm-smmu.disable_bypass=0 on the kernel command line in order to boot.
> > Also if it matters I am running the latest firmware from Solidrun
> > which is based on LSDK-20.04.
> >
>
> Hmmm, from what I remember I think I tested this with the smmu bypassed
> so that is why I didn't catch it.
>
> > Is there any reason for this code not to be working for LX2160A?
>
> I wouldn't expect this to be LX2160A specific but rather a bug in the
> implementation.. sorry.
>
> Let me reproduce it and see if I can get to the bottom of it and I will
> get back with some more info.
>

Hi Daniel,

It seems that the dma-unmapping on the SGT buffer was incorrectly done
with a zero size since on the Tx path I initialized the improper field.

Could you test the following diff and let me know if you can generate
the WARNINGs anymore?

--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/dpaa2/dpaa2-eth.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/dpaa2/dpaa2-eth.c
@@ -878,7 +878,7 @@ static int dpaa2_eth_build_sg_fd_single_buf(struct dpaa2_eth_priv *priv,
swa = (struct dpaa2_eth_swa *)sgt_buf;
swa->type = DPAA2_ETH_SWA_SINGLE;
swa->single.skb = skb;
- swa->sg.sgt_size = sgt_buf_size;
+ swa->single.sgt_size = sgt_buf_size;

/* Separately map the SGT buffer */
sgt_addr = dma_map_single(dev, sgt_buf, sgt_buf_size, DMA_BIDIRECTIONAL);


Ioana