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Date:      Fri, 24 Mar 2017 15:17:53 +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?
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Hi Joe,
  From your description it's pretty clear that you hit the FreeBSD11 bug
that is now fixed in 11.0-stable (in addition to the upstream netmap
version on github).
The fix was committed in r312783.

Cheers,
  Vincenzo

2017-03-24 14:50 GMT+01:00 Joe Jones <joe@stream-technologies.com>:

> 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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>>
>> --
>> Vincenzo Maffione
>>
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