Re: [PATCH net v1] net: stmmac: TSO: Fix unbalanced DMA map/unmap for non-paged SKB data

[Jakub Kicinski]

On Thu, 28 Nov 2024 14:45:01 +0800 Furong Xu wrote:
> > Let me know if you need any more information.
> 
> [  149.986210] dwc-eth-dwmac 2490000.ethernet eth0: Tx DMA map failed
> and
> [  245.571688] dwc-eth-dwmac 2490000.ethernet eth0: Tx DMA map failed
> [  245.575349] dwc-eth-dwmac 2490000.ethernet eth0: Tx DMA map failed
> are reported by stmmac_xmit() obviously, but not stmmac_tso_xmit().
> 
> And these crashes are caused by "Tx DMA map failed", as you can see that
> current driver code does not handle this kind of failure so well. It is clear
> that we need to figure out why Tx DMA map failed.
> 
> This patch corrects the sequence and timing of DMA unmap by waiting all
> DMA transmit descriptors to be closed by DMA engine for one DMA map in
> stmmac_tso_xmit(), it never leaks DMA addresses and never introduces
> other side effect.
> 
> "Tx DMA map failed" is a weird failure, and I cannot reproduce this failure
> on my device with DWMAC CORE 5.10a(Synopsys ID: 0x51) and DWXGMAC CORE 3.20a.

Let me repeat Jon's question - is there any info or test you need from
Jon to make progress with a fix?

If Jon's board worked before and doesn't work with this patch we will
need *a* fix, if no fix is provided our only choice is revert.