On Tue, 3 May 2005 15:03:33 -0700
"David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, 03 May 2005 13:41:47 -0700
> "Michael Chan" <mchan@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > MSI is buggy on 5703 and tg3 will not enable MSI on that chip. MSI only
> > works on the latest PCI Express chips.
>
> Ok, and he has a pre-MSI copy of the tg3 driver anyways.
>
> Michael, there were no master/target abort bits set in the PCI status
> register from his dump. If one of the DMA units locks up on the tg3,
> will it still be able to update the PCI_STATUS register appropriately
> when it encounters a DMA transaction error (ie. master or target abort)
> or would we also need to look at the PCI host bridge PCI config space
> registers as well?
>
> I strongly suspect one of two things in these AMD system cases of tg3
> wedging:
>
> 1) some DMA problem
> 2) register write reordering
>
> Lack of master/target abort indication in tg3's PCI status register
> makes me feel that #2 is more likely to be the problem cause.
>
> Just for fun, Stephen, can you make tg3_get_invariants() always set
> the TG3_FLAG_MBOX_WRITE_REORDER bit in tp->tg3_flags and see if that
> makes the problem go away?
No, I forced it to always be true and still dies (when taking network down).
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