Hi Pritha,

I really don't know. The kernel I tried was 2.6.27.6 and is a the mercurial 
repository of the linux kernel with the following patch queue applied: 
http://repo.m5sim.org/linux-patches There is nothing in there that touches the 
e1000 driver anymore.

Ali

On Feb 20, 2012, at 11:29 AM, Pritha Ghoshal wrote:

> 51061742000: drivesys.cpu + A0 T0 : @e1000_probe+608    : ldq        
> r16,680(r11)    : MemRead :  D=0x0000000000000000 A=0xfffffc00070242a8
> 51061747000: drivesys.cpu + A0 T0 : @tsunami_ioremap    : lda        
> r1,-3(r31)      : IntAlu :  D=0xfffffffffffffffd
> 51061747500: drivesys.cpu + A0 T0 : @tsunami_ioremap+4    : sll        
> r1,40,r1        : IntAlu :  D=0xfffffd0000000000
> 51061748000: drivesys.cpu + A0 T0 : @tsunami_ioremap+8    : addq       
> r16,r1,r0       : IntAlu :  D=0xfffffd0000000000
> 51061749500: drivesys.cpu + A0 T0 : @e1000_probe+648    : stq        
> r0,752(r12)     : MemWrite :  D=0xfffffd0000000000 A=0xfffffc000722b930
> 
> So the address is actually coming from a modified version of the value in 
> R31. It is shifted left logically 40 bits and that's how the wrong address is 
> generated. This value gets stored in address A=0xfffffc000722b930. 
> 
> I am still confused about how you don't see this error, do I have some old 
> versions of files?  
> 
> Pritha
> 
> On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 10:34 AM, Ali Saidi <sa...@umich.edu> wrote:
> I wonder who wrote to A=0xfffffc000722b930 last. That would be the next step 
> in debugging this is to understand where the address got initially generated 
> from.
> 
> Ali
> 
> On Feb 18, 2012, at 9:28 PM, Pritha Ghoshal wrote:
> 
>> Hi Ali, 
>> 
>> So I think this is the relevant trace: 
>> 51061923500: drivesys.cpu + A0 T0 : @e1000_probe+1412    : ldq        
>> r16,144(r30)    : MemRead :  D=0xfffffc000722b930 A=0xfffffc0007033c78
>> 51061927500: drivesys.cpu + A0 T0 : @e1000_set_media_type+20    : bis        
>> r31,r16,r9      : IntAlu :  D=0xfffffc000722b930
>> 51061942000: drivesys.cpu + A0 T0 : @e1000_set_media_type+184    : ldq       
>>  r16,0(r9)       : MemRead :  D=0xfffffd0000000000 A=0xfffffc000722b930
>> 51061943000: drivesys.cpu + A0 T0 : @e1000_set_media_type+192    : lda       
>>  r16,8(r16)      : IntAlu :  D=0xfffffd0000000008
>> 51061947500: drivesys.cpu + A0 T0 : @tsunami_readl    : ldl        r0,0(r16) 
>>       : MemRead :
>> 
>> The last line of code gets executed for the NSGige adapter as well, but the 
>> previous part of the code which sets r16, sets a different value for that 
>> adapter, as this is adapter specific code. 
>> 
>> I am not sure how to rectify the error still though.. 
>> 
>> Pritha
>> 
>> 
>> On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 5:47 PM, Ali Saidi <sa...@umich.edu> wrote:
>> If you get an execution trace right before this happens that might shed some 
>> light on it. Tracking how the address that is being used is assembled by the 
>> cpu is a good start.
>> 
>> Nothing jumps out at me though, so I'm pretty confused why I don't see the 
>> problem and you do.
>> 
>> Ali
>> 
>> On Feb 16, 2012, at 4:57 PM, Pritha Ghoshal wrote:
>> 
>> >
>> >> Hi Pritha,
>> >> I took a old kernel from when i published the original paper in 2009 
>> >> (2.6.27)
>> > and it seems to work with the e1000 NIC if I just make the following 
>> > change:
>> >> diff -r ef8630054b5e configs/common/FSConfig.py---
>> > a/configs/common/FSConfig.py  Tue Feb 14 14:15:30 2012 -0500+++
>> > b/configs/common/FSConfig.py  Thu Feb 16 11:28:32 2012 -0600 <at>  <at>  
>> > -58,7
>> > +58,7  <at>  <at>  def makeLinuxAlphaSystem(mem_mode, mdesc = None):
>> > IO_address_space_base = 0x80000000000     class BaseTsunami(Tsunami):-
>> > ethernet = NSGigE(pci_bus=0, pci_dev=1, pci_func=0)+        ethernet =
>> > IGbE_e1000(pci_bus=0, pci_dev=1, pci_func=0)         ide = 
>> > IdeController(disks=
>> > [Parent.disk0, Parent.disk2],                             pci_func=0, 
>> > pci_dev=0,
>> > pci_bus=0)
>> >> I don't know what kernel you're using but it's likely there is either an 
>> >> issue
>> > with the configuration of it or perhaps something has broken in the alpha
>> > branch.
>> >> From an Alpha/Tsunami perspective, virtual addresses that start with 
>> >> ffffc map
>> > to physical memory directly and addresses that start with ffffd map to the 
>> > i/o.
>> > I'd have to look at the tsunami memory map documentation which isn't close 
>> > at
>> > hand to what 80000000008 could be, but it doesn't seem right. You could 
>> > use the
>> > PCIDev Ethernet trace flags to understand what addresses the PCI devices 
>> > are
>> > getting assigned.
>> >> Thanks,
>> >> Ali
>> >>
>> >
>> > Hi Ali,
>> >
>> > I had tried using the same modification in FSConfig.py, and even the 
>> > kernel I am
>> > using in 2.6.27. Should I try to build the kernel again and check?
>> >
>> > Regarding the addresses, I used the flag BusAddrRanges, I am not able to 
>> > see any
>> > of the address ranges mapped to the IOBus which starts from 0x80000000000. 
>> > The
>> > closest one I can see is:
>> >     0: drivesys.tsunami.fake_OROM: registering range: 0x800000a0000-0x60000
>> >      0: drivesys.iobus: Adding range 0x800000a0000 - 0x800000fffff for id 
>> > 12
>> > All the rest seem to be starting with 0x801**** instead of 0x800****.
>> > For membus this is the range:
>> >      0: drivesys.membus: Adding range 0x80000000000 - 0xffffffffffffffff 
>> > for id
>> > 2
>> > So there is one range of addresses which are not mapped to anywhere on IO 
>> > bus,
>> > even though the
>> >    IO_address_space_base = 0x80000000000
>> > is set in FSConfig.py.
>> > But the mapping of addresses do not change from NSGigE adapter mappings, 
>> > and
>> > there is no error in that case.
>> >
>> > I enabled Fetch flag to see the addresses being accessed before the error
>> > condition, and in the e100 NIC, this is the faulting address:
>> > 51061947500: drivesys.cpu: Fetch: PC:0xfffffc0000324800
>> > 51061947500: drivesys.cpu: Address is fffffd0000000008, Physical address
>> > 80000000008
>> >
>> > But in the case of NSGigE, the same address brings forward a different 
>> > virtual
>> > address for the read:
>> > 51379655000: drivesys.cpu: Fetch: PC:0xfffffc0000324800
>> > 51379655000: drivesys.cpu: Address is fffffd0009000018, Physical address
>> > 80009000018
>> >
>> > For the other cases, the sequence addresses are identical in case of 
>> > NSGigE and
>> > IGbE_e1000 adapters. eg:
>> > NSGigE:
>> > 51690478500: drivesys.cpu: Fetch: PC:0xfffffc0000319ce4
>> > 51690478500: drivesys.cpu: Address is fffffc000085e208, Physical address 
>> > 85e208
>> > e1000:
>> > 51061946500: drivesys.cpu: Fetch: PC:0xfffffc0000319ce4
>> > 51061946500: drivesys.cpu: Address is fffffc000085e208, Physical address 
>> > 85e208
>> >
>> >
>> > Could you give any pointer regarding where this faulty address is getting
>> > generated for this particular case?
>> >
>> > Pritha
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
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