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Date:      Fri, 24 Mar 2017 11:29:36 +0100
From:      Vincenzo Maffione <v.maffione@gmail.com>
To:        Joe Jones <joe@stream-technologies.com>
Cc:        "freebsd-net@freebsd.org" <freebsd-net@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: cxgbe netmap promiscuous mode?
Message-ID:  <CA%2B_eA9itNjXmsu26ZsFZCp4T=txA0nDb%2BozCTrxpZaA1ym_O7Q@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi Joe,
  There was a fix for a panic in emulated mode that was applied stable/11
branch, so I guess it also ended up into FreeBSD-11.0-STABLE.
I don't know whether the same fix ended up into in 11.0-RELEASE-p8 (I'm not
familiar with FreeBSD releasing process, sorry!).

Or maybe this panic happens with netmap upstream?
If this is a new bug, it would be nice to have the kernel with the debug
symbols enabled, so that we can get more detailed information from the
stack trace.

Cheers,
  Vincenzo

2017-03-24 11:19 GMT+01:00 Joe Jones <joe@stream-technologies.com>:

> Hi Vincenzo,
>
> I just tried with that sysctl set to 2, I get a similar looking panic  to
> before
>
> Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode
> cpuid = 7; apic id = 0e
> fault virtual address    = 0x1
> fault code        = supervisor read data, page not present
> instruction pointer    = 0x20:0xffffffff806e38aa
> stack pointer            = 0x28:0xfffffe047ba18440
> frame pointer            = 0x28:0xfffffe047ba18490
> code segment        = base 0x0, limit 0xfffff, type 0x1b
>             = DPL 0, pres 1, long 1, def32 0, gran 1
> processor eflags    = interrupt enabled, resume, IOPL = 0
> current process        = 2205 (main)
> trap number        = 12
> panic: page fault
> cpuid = 7
> KDB: stack backtrace:
> #0 0xffffffff80b240f7 at kdb_backtrace+0x67
> #1 0xffffffff80ad9462 at vpanic+0x182
> #2 0xffffffff80ad92d3 at panic+0x43
> #3 0xffffffff80fa1d51 at trap_fatal+0x351
> #4 0xffffffff80fa1f43 at trap_pfault+0x1e3
> #5 0xffffffff80fa14ec at trap+0x26c
> #6 0xffffffff80f841c1 at calltrap+0x8
> #7 0xffffffff806e5a80 at generic_netmap_txsync+0x330
> #8 0xffffffff806e06f9 at netmap_ioctl+0x279
> #9 0xffffffff8098624f at devfs_ioctl_f+0x13f
> #10 0xffffffff80b41b34 at kern_ioctl+0x2d4
> #11 0xffffffff80b417f1 at sys_ioctl+0x171
> #12 0xffffffff80fa26ae at amd64_syscall+0x4ce
> #13 0xffffffff80f844ab at Xfast_syscall+0xfb
>
> This is on 11.0-RELEASE-p8
>
> Thanks,
> Joe Jones
>
> On 23/03/17 18:20, Vincenzo Maffione wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>   You could try to use netmap in emulated mode (sysctl
>> dev.netmap.admode=2). If this works, at least you know that the problem is
>> in the cxgbe netmap support and not in the netmap core itself.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>   Vincenzo
>>
>> 2017-03-23 14:00 GMT+01:00 Joe Jones <joe@stream-technologies.com
>> <mailto:joe@stream-technologies.com>>:
>>
>>     Hello,
>>
>>     We have a T520-SO and have made a new install of 11.0, to begin
>>     with the box would panic every time we tried to switch the card
>>     into netmap mode. So we recompiled the kernel with netmap removed,
>>     then compiled the netmap kernel module from github, as this in our
>>     experience generally leads to a more stable netmap.
>>
>>     we have
>>
>>     uname -a
>>     FreeBSD goose2 11.0-RELEASE-p1 FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE-p1 #0: Wed Mar
>>     22 16:52:35 UTC 2017  joe@goose2:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64
>>
>>     and the following in /boot/loader.conf
>>
>>     t4fw_cfg_load="YES"
>>     t5fw_cfg_load="YES"
>>     if_cxgbe_load="YES"
>>     hw.cxgbe.fl_pktshift=0
>>     hw.cxgbe.toecaps_allowed=0
>>     hw.cxgbe.nnmtxq10g=8
>>     hw.cxgbe.nnmrxq10g=8
>>     hw.cxgbe.num_vis=2
>>
>>     Before I run our application I run
>>
>>     ifconfig cxl1 promisc -vlanhwtag up
>>
>>     Now our application can now start without panicking the kernel.
>>     Here is where it gets interesting, our application is able to
>>     announce it's self via ARP, I can see the ethernet switch learning
>>     which port it's on, and other hosts adding it to their ARP tables.
>>     When I try an ICMP ping it goes missing. After watching the TX
>>     packet graph for the connected port on the switch while starting
>>     and stopping a flood ping to the application, I'm sure the packets
>>     are getting sent to the card, however I don't see them in the
>>     netmap ring. If I kill our application, then use ifconfig to
>>     create and configure a vlan port I can confirm that the card is
>>     working and has connectivity.
>>
>>     Here's what I think is happening. ARP requests are received
>>     because they are sent to the broadcast address. Our application
>>     then announces it's self. However traffic destined for the
>>     application is send to a MAC address which is neither the
>>     broadcast or the MAC programed into the hardware and is dropped.
>>     My understanding of promiscuous it that it informs the card that
>>     we want these dropped packets. It looks to me like, when the card
>>     is in netmap mode the promisc flag is being ignored.
>>
>>     I have also tried using freebsd-update to update to p8. As with
>>     the p0 kernel we get a panic when we switch the card into netmap mode.
>>
>>     We did previously have these cards working in netmap mode. We were
>>     using a pre 11 snapshot of the svn head though .
>>
>>     Many Thanks
>>
>>     Joe Jones
>>     Stream Technologies
>>
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>> --
>> Vincenzo Maffione
>>
>
>


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Vincenzo Maffione



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