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Re: [microblaze-uclinux] UDP packet reception triggers a hangup on the microblaze



Hi All,

this changes is in latest entry.S too.

Thanks,
Michal


>  Hi,
> We used to have the same problem, although we don't use xemac. Without
> going into possibly misleading details, we noticed a one-line difference
> between our entry.S and the one in the Petalogix tree. After making the
> change we've been able to run a simple script that continuously sends
> packets to the board for several days without crashing. Running the same
> script before the change, the system would freeze in seconds. I hope
> this helps, here's an attachment just in case.
> 
> Location -
> petalinux/software/linux-2.6.x-petalogix/arch/microblaze/kernel/entry.S
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bas van Tiel <bvantiel@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: microblaze-uclinux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 15:10
> Subject: [microblaze-uclinux] UDP packet reception triggers a hangup on
> the microblaze
> 
> Hello All,
> 
> 
> 
> when I transmit a continously stream of UDP packets to the microblaze
> 
> a hangup is triggered,  I have the following configuration:
> 
> 
> 
> - petalinux-v0.30-rc1 software
> 
> - xemac linux driver in PIO mode
> 
> - xemac IP block which is connected via a PLB <-> OPB bridge to the
> 
> ublaze. (the xemac is configured with "No DMA" and IPIF
> 
> (recieve/transmit buffers) are set to 32768 bytes and FIFO depth of
> 
> 16.)
> 
> - EDK 9.2.02. with the patch (AR30051) from Xilinx for the microblaze v7.00.b.
> 
> - 2 uarts, one for kernel console, other one for  shell access.
> 
> - ML506 Evalutation platform
> 
> 
> 
> I tried to capture the packets via AF_PACKET and AF_INET, both methods
> 
> gave the same result -> a kind of hangup of the microblaze:
> 
> 
> 
> symptoms:
> 
> 1) no serial input is taken from both terminals
> 
> 2) a ping to the microblaze doesn't send a reply packet back.
> 
> 
> 
> Has anybody seen this behavior before with the xemac connected via the
> 
> OPB (PLB<->OPB) to the PLB bus, or is this setup with a bridge in
> 
> between
> 
> asking for trouble and should I look for an alternative?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Bas
> 
> 
> 
> --- some additional info
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Linux tmb 2.6.20-uc0 #1 Tue Nov 25 14:27:21 CET 2008 microblaze
> 
> 
> 
> CPU-Family:     MicroBlaze
> 
> FPGA-Arch:      virtex5
> 
> CPU-Ver:        Unknown
> 
> CPU-MHz:        125.00
> 
> BogoMips:       62.05
> 
> HW-Div:         yes
> 
> HW-Shift:       yes
> 
> Icache:        8kB
> 
> Dcache:        8kB
> 
> HW-Debug:       yes
> 
> 
> 
>   PID PORT STAT SIZE SHARED %CPU COMMAND
> 
> 1      S    135K     0K  0.0 /bin/init
> 
> 2      R      0K     0K  0.0 ksoftirqd/0
> 
> 3      S      0K     0K  0.0 events/0
> 
> 4      S      0K     0K  0.0 khelper
> 
> 5      S      0K     0K  0.0 kthread
> 
> 6      S      0K     0K  0.0 kblockd/0
> 
> 7      S      0K     0K  0.0 pdflush
> 
> 8      S      0K     0K  0.0 pdflush
> 
> 9      S      0K     0K  0.0 kswapd0
> 
> 10      S      0K     0K  0.0 aio/0
> 
> 11      S      0K     0K  0.0 mtdblockd
> 
> 24      S      0K     0K  0.0 jffs2_gcd_mtd4
> 
> 40   S0 S    656K     0K  0.0 /bin/sh
> 
> 41   S0 S    643K     0K  0.0 /bin/sh --
> 
> 42      S     67K     0K  0.0 /bin/inetd
> 
> 55   S0 R     68K     0K  0.0 ps
> 
> 
> 
> pseudo code:
> 
> 
> 
> ethernet mac is running at 100 BaseTX-FD
> 
> 
> 
> sender:  (host PC)
> 
>     sd_ = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM, IPPROTO_UDP);
> 
>     sendto(sd_, buf, BUFLEN, 0, (struct sockaddr*)&sa_, (socklen_t)sizeof(sa_));
> 
> 
> 
> receiver (Microblaze)
> 
>  sd_ = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM, IPPROTO_UDP);
> 
>  bind(sd_, (struct sockaddr*)&sa, sizeof(sa))
> 
>   if (!select(sd_+1, &rfds, 0, 0, &timeout)) { break; }
> 
>  size = recv(sd_, buf, BUFLEN, 0);
> 
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