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

From: Randy Dunlap
Date: Tue Sep 11 2018 - 16:57:51 EST


On 9/11/18 12:32 AM, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Mon, 2018-09-10 at 19:17 -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Any ideas?
>
> Hmm. Is this new?

I can't be sure. I've been having problems booting this laptop for a few
weeks now but haven't tracked it down yet.

>> 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?

The wireless NIC is Condor Peak:

04:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Centrino Wireless-N 1000 [Condor Peak]
Subsystem: Intel Corporation Centrino Wireless-N 1000 BGN
Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx+
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 31
Region 0: Memory at c2600000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]
Capabilities: [c8] Power Management version 3
Flags: PMEClk- DSI+ D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0+,D1-,D2-,D3hot+,D3cold+)
Status: D0 NoSoftRst- PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
Capabilities: [d0] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
Address: 00000000fee0800c Data: 4162
Capabilities: [e0] Express (v1) Endpoint, MSI 00
DevCap: MaxPayload 128 bytes, PhantFunc 0, Latency L0s <512ns, L1 unlimited
ExtTag- AttnBtn- AttnInd- PwrInd- RBE+ FLReset+ SlotPowerLimit 0.000W
DevCtl: Report errors: Correctable- Non-Fatal- Fatal- Unsupported-
RlxdOrd+ ExtTag- PhantFunc- AuxPwr- NoSnoop+ FLReset-
MaxPayload 128 bytes, MaxReadReq 128 bytes
DevSta: CorrErr- UncorrErr- FatalErr- UnsuppReq- AuxPwr+ TransPend-
LnkCap: Port #0, Speed 2.5GT/s, Width x1, ASPM L0s L1, Exit Latency L0s <128ns, L1 <32us
ClockPM+ Surprise- LLActRep- BwNot- ASPMOptComp-
LnkCtl: ASPM L0s L1 Enabled; RCB 64 bytes Disabled- CommClk+
ExtSynch- ClockPM+ AutWidDis- BWInt- AutBWInt-
LnkSta: Speed 2.5GT/s, Width x1, TrErr- Train- SlotClk+ DLActive- BWMgmt- ABWMgmt-
Capabilities: [100 v1] Advanced Error Reporting
UESta: DLP- SDES- TLP- FCP- CmpltTO- CmpltAbrt- UnxCmplt- RxOF- MalfTLP- ECRC- UnsupReq- ACSViol-
UEMsk: DLP- SDES- TLP- FCP- CmpltTO- CmpltAbrt- UnxCmplt- RxOF- MalfTLP- ECRC- UnsupReq- ACSViol-
UESvrt: DLP+ SDES- TLP- FCP+ CmpltTO- CmpltAbrt- UnxCmplt- RxOF+ MalfTLP+ ECRC- UnsupReq- ACSViol-
CESta: RxErr- BadTLP- BadDLLP- Rollover- Timeout- NonFatalErr-
CEMsk: RxErr- BadTLP- BadDLLP- Rollover- Timeout- NonFatalErr+
AERCap: First Error Pointer: 00, ECRCGenCap- ECRCGenEn- ECRCChkCap- ECRCChkEn-
MultHdrRecCap- MultHdrRecEn- TLPPfxPres- HdrLogCap-
HeaderLog: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
Capabilities: [140 v1] Device Serial Number 74-e5-0b-ff-ff-2d-dc-28
Kernel driver in use: iwlwifi
Kernel modules: iwlwifi



sigh. I can reproduce it without the patch:

> https://p.sipsolutions.net/aa0dccd7a60fe176.txt

but with that patch, it just hangs after about 25 seconds of booting
(slow hard drive, not SSD).

I'll try some other ways.

--
~Randy