On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 11:18:23AM -0500, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 12:00 PM, Duc Dang <dhdang@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 8:55 AM, Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 08:22:55PM -0500, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> >>> On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 02:50:39PM -0700, Duc Dang wrote:
> >>
> >>> > Do you have another PCIe card to try on the same reboot test on this board?
> >>>
> >>> I've seen this on at least two Mellanox cards. I'm running similar tests
> >>> on a different type of card now.
> >>
> >> FWIW, reboot tests on two machines with Mellanox cards failed, while the
> >> same test on a machine with a different proprietary card succeeded.
> >
> > Thanks, Bjorn.
> >
> > I don't have the same Mellanox card as yours, but I will also run
> > similar reboot test to see if I hit the same issue with my card.
>
> Any more hints on this? Nothing has changed on my end, so of course
> I'm still seeing this, always on machines with Mellanox, and never on
> other machines. Could this be a hardware issue like a signal
> integrity or margin issue? I don't know where to go from here because
> I'm not a hardware person, and I don't know anything to do in
> software.
Silly hack below, not actually a solution (and it may not even work):
diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/fault.c b/arch/arm64/mm/fault.c
index 94d98cd1aad8..e895e96b3d13 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/mm/fault.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/mm/fault.c
@@ -369,6 +369,14 @@ static int do_bad(unsigned long addr, unsigned int esr, struct pt_regs *regs)
return 1;
}
+/*
+ * Retry the faulty access.
+ */
+static int do_good(unsigned long addr, unsigned int esr, struct pt_regs *regs)
+{
+ return 0;
+}
+
static struct fault_info {
int (*fn)(unsigned long addr, unsigned int esr, struct pt_regs *regs);
int sig;
@@ -391,7 +399,7 @@ static struct fault_info {
{ do_page_fault, SIGSEGV, SEGV_ACCERR, "level 1 permission fault" },
{ do_page_fault, SIGSEGV, SEGV_ACCERR, "level 2 permission fault" },
{ do_page_fault, SIGSEGV, SEGV_ACCERR, "level 3 permission fault" },
- { do_bad, SIGBUS, 0, "synchronous external abort" },
+ { do_good, SIGBUS, 0, "synchronous external abort" },
{ do_bad, SIGBUS, 0, "asynchronous external abort" },
{ do_bad, SIGBUS, 0, "unknown 18" },
{ do_bad, SIGBUS, 0, "unknown 19" },
--
Catalin
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