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Date:      Fri, 24 Mar 2017 13:50:39 +0000
From:      Joe Jones <joe@stream-technologies.com>
To:        Vincenzo Maffione <v.maffione@gmail.com>
Cc:        "freebsd-net@freebsd.org" <freebsd-net@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: cxgbe netmap promiscuous mode?
Message-ID:  <58D5242F.9040706@stream-technologies.com>
In-Reply-To: <CA%2B_eA9itNjXmsu26ZsFZCp4T=txA0nDb%2BozCTrxpZaA1ym_O7Q@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi Vincenzo,

we can get rid  if the panic if we compile the kernel without netmap, 
then load an up to date netmap as a module. We can live with that for now.

Some time last year before Free BSD 11 was branched from head, we 
compiled a checkout and it worked without problem on the same hardware 
setup. I may try and figure out what the regression is, I'm not familiar 
with the FreeBSD release process either though.

Thanks,
Joe Jones

On 24/03/17 10:29, Vincenzo Maffione wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto: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>
>         <mailto: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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