Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 6 Jun 2012 10:29:47 +0800 | Subject | Re: tg3: transmit timed out, resetting | From | ethan zhao <> |
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So no way to fix it via firmware update or Linux driver ? :<
On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 10:14 AM, Matt Carlson <mcarlson@broadcom.com> wrote: > Hi Ethan. This device does not have any special firmware (beyond > bootcode). It shouldn't be necessary to disable any of the device's > features if it is working correctly. > > Thanks for the debugging output. The tg3_stop_block() timeouts mean > that (a portion of) the chip is stuck somehow. Later drivers output a lot > more information than this. The additional information can help answer a > lot of questions in a short period of time. I was hoping I could > accomplish a lot more in fewer emails if I have more data available. :) > > On Wed, Jun 06, 2012 at 09:58:42AM +0800, ethan zhao wrote: >> Saw many similar bugs report by simply google, >> The root cause of this issue may be related to Broadcom tg3 firmware >> and the version of tg3 hardware, so I think it is hard to get fix in >> Linux driver. better way is get another NIC, or disable some its >> feature to workaround if we got what feature block it (tso ? sg ? ). >> >> Some debugging messages from other guys: >> >> [ 3538.223529] tg3 0000:01:08.0: eth1: transmit timed out, resetting >> [ 3538.229698] tg3 0000:01:08.0: eth1: DEBUG: MAC_TX_STATUS[00000008] >> MAC_RX_STATUS[00000008] >> [ 3538.236001] tg3 0000:01:08.0: eth1: DEBUG: RDMAC_STATUS[00000000] >> WDMAC_STATUS[00000000] >> [ 3538.343602] tg3 0000:01:08.0: tg3_stop_block timed out, ofs=1800 enable_bit=2 >> [ 3538.449609] tg3 0000:01:08.0: tg3_stop_block timed out, ofs=c00 enable_bit=2 >> [ 3538.555402] tg3 0000:01:08.0: tg3_stop_block timed out, ofs=4800 enable_bit=2 >> [ 3538.692079] tg3 0000:01:08.0: eth1: Link is down >> >> We could see tg3_reset_hw()-->tg3_stop_fw()--> tg3_stop_block() timeout, >> so the response of firmware is not right. >> >> Just my 2 cents. >> >> Ethan >> >> >> On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 9:02 AM, Matt Carlson <mcarlson@broadcom.com> wrote: >> > I'm attempting to reproduce this in our lab. ?In the meantime, >> > the latest revisions of the driver output a register dump and some >> > additional information when transmit timeouts happen. ?It would be >> > useful to see that data. ?Would it be possible to try a the latest >> > kernels and get this information? >> > >> > On Mon, Jun 04, 2012 at 04:14:30PM -0700, Christian Kujau wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> >> >> on this Ideapad S10 the onboard Broadcom BCM5906M prints the warning >> >> below, once. From then on, the "transmit timed out, resetting" message >> >> repeats, every now and then. >> >> >> >> This laptop is mounting 2 readonly NFS shares from a box in the same LAN >> >> and when scanning lots of files on these NFS shares, the transmit timeouts >> >> occur more often, I think. When there's sequential traffic (i.e. reading >> >> larger files from the NFS shares), fewer warnings occur. But this is just >> >> manual observation, I haven't been able to reproduce this reliably. >> >> However, there's constant traffic on the device (maybe ~700KB/s both tx >> >> and rx), so the messages occur pretty regularly. >> >> >> >> I have reported the error against the Fedora 17 kernel [0] but it happens >> >> with a vanilla 3.4.0 too[1] - check out for full dmesg, .config and more. >> >> >> >> I had a similar issue a while ago[2] and almost forgot about them. The >> >> laptop ran Ubuntu 10.04 (2.6.32) since then and the problem was gone, so >> >> I'd say 2.6.32 fixed it. Now the same laptop switched to Fedora, kernel >> >> 3.3.4 and the problem seems to be back again. >> >> >> >> I'll try running with sg=off, as Matt suggested in [3] and report back. >> >> >> >> Thanks, >> >> Christian. >> >> >> >> [0] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=825123 >> >> [1] http://nerdbynature.de/bits/3.4.0/tg3/ >> >> [2] http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0906.1/00004.html >> >> [3] http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0906.1/00317.html >> >> >> >> ------------[ cut here ]------------ >> >> WARNING: at /opt/home/chrisk/dev/linux-2.6-git/net/sched/sch_generic.c:255 >> >> dev_watchdog+0x1cc/0x1e0() >> >> Hardware name: Lenovo >> >> NETDEV WATCHDOG: p2p1 (tg3): transmit queue 0 timed out >> >> Modules linked in: acpi_cpufreq mperf freq_table nfs lockd sunrpc b43 >> >> mac80211 cfg80211 ssb coretemp hwmon usb_storage [last unloaded: scsi_wait_scan] >> >> Pid: 685, comm: FahCore_78 Not tainted 3.4.0-10151-g4fc3acf #8 >> >> Call Trace: >> >> ?[<c102b299>] ? warn_slowpath_common+0x79/0xb0 >> >> ?[<c12d54ec>] ? dev_watchdog+0x1cc/0x1e0 >> >> ?[<c12d54ec>] ? dev_watchdog+0x1cc/0x1e0 >> >> ?[<c102b374>] ? warn_slowpath_fmt+0x34/0x40 >> >> ?[<c12d54ec>] ? dev_watchdog+0x1cc/0x1e0 >> >> ?[<c12d5320>] ? pfifo_fast_dequeue+0xe0/0xe0 >> >> ?[<c1035cf1>] ? run_timer_softirq+0xd1/0x1d0 >> >> ?[<c1031615>] ? __do_softirq+0x75/0x100 >> >> ?[<c10315a0>] ? remote_softirq_receive+0x20/0x20 >> >> ?<IRQ> ?[<c10318a6>] ? irq_exit+0x66/0x90 >> >> ?[<c101b8d9>] ? smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x59/0x90 >> >> ?[<c1360b35>] ? apic_timer_interrupt+0x31/0x38 >> >> ?[<c1360000>] ? rt_mutex_trylock+0x70/0x70 >> >> ---[ end trace 9de668a859ee5d6c ]--- >> >> tg3 0000:02:00.0: p2p1: transmit timed out, resetting >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> >> BOFH excuse #438: >> >> >> >> sticky bit has come loose >> >> >> > >> > -- >> > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in >> > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org >> > More majordomo info at ?http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >> > Please read the FAQ at ?http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >> > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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