On 22/07/2019 12:39, Jose Abreu wrote: > From: Lars Persson <lists@xxxxxxx> > Date: Jul/22/2019, 12:11:50 (UTC+00:00) > >> On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 12:18 PM Ilias Apalodimas >> <ilias.apalodimas@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> >>> On Thu, Jul 18, 2019 at 07:48:04AM +0000, Jose Abreu wrote: >>>> From: Jon Hunter <jonathanh@xxxxxxxxxx> >>>> Date: Jul/17/2019, 19:58:53 (UTC+00:00) >>>> >>>>> Let me know if you have any thoughts. >>>> >>>> Can you try attached patch ? >>>> >>> >>> The log says someone calls panic() right? >>> Can we trye and figure were that happens during the stmmac init phase? >>> >> >> The reason for the panic is hidden in this one line of the kernel logs: >> Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! exitcode=0x0000000b >> >> The init process is killed by SIGSEGV (signal 11 = 0xb). >> >> I would suggest you look for data corruption bugs in the RX path. If >> the code is fetched from the NFS mount then a corrupt RX buffer can >> trigger a crash in userspace. >> >> /Lars > > > Jon, I'm not familiar with ARM. Are the buffer addresses being allocated > in a coherent region ? Can you try attached patch which adds full memory > barrier before the sync ? TBH I am not sure about the buffer addresses either. The attached patch did not help. Same problem persists. Jon -- nvpublic