Re: Regression: memory corruption on Atmel SAMA5D31

[<Tudor.Ambarus@microchip.com>]

On 6/21/22 13:46, Peter Rosin wrote:
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> 2022-06-20 at 16:22, Tudor.Ambarus@microchip.com wrote:
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>>> git@github.com:ambarus/linux-0day.git, branch dma-regression-hdmac-v5.18-rc7-4th-attempt
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>> Hi, Peter,
>>
>> I've just forced pushed on this branch, I had a typo somewhere and with that fixed I could
>> no longer reproduce the bug. Tested for ~20 minutes. Would you please test last 3 patches
>> and tell me if you can still reproduce the bug?
> 
> Hi!
> 
> I rebased your patches onto my current branch which is v5.18.2 plus a few unrelated
> changes (at least they are unrelated after removing the previous workaround to disable
> nand-dma entirely).
> 
> The unrelated patches are two backports so that drivers recognize new compatibles [1][2],
> which should be completely harmless, plus a couple of proposed fixes that happens to fix
> eeprom issues with the at91 I2C driver from Codrin Ciubotariu [3].
> 
> On that kernel, I can still reproduce. It seems a bit harder to reproduce the problem now
> though. If the system is otherwise idle, the sha256sum test did not reproduce in a run of
> 150+ attempts, but if I let the "real" application run while I do the test, I get a failure rate
> of about 10%, see below. The real application burns some CPU (but not all of it) and
> communicates with HW using I2C, native UARTs and two of the four USB-serial ports
> (FTDI, with the latency set to 1ms as mentioned earlier), so I guess there is more DMA
> pressure or something? There is a 100mbps network connection, but it was left "idle"
> during this test.
> 

Thanks, Peter.
I got back to the office, I'm rechecking what could go wrong.

ta