From 5793112f751ee3d9f841af4846d68e6b1ff1bff4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Golle Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2020 23:33:00 +0100 Subject: oxnas: reduce size of ATA DMA descriptor space After years of trying to find the reason for random kernel crashes while both CPU and SATA are under load it has been found. Some odd commented-out #defines in kref's single-port driver [1] which were copied from the vendor driver made me develop a theory: The IO-mapped memory area for DMA descriptors apparetly got some holes just before the alignment boundaries. This feels like an off-by-one bug in the hardware or maybe those fields are used internally by the SATA controller's firmware. Whatever the cause is: they cannot be used and trying to use them results in reading back unexpected stuff and ends up with oopsing Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address d085c004 Work around the issue by reducing the area used for bmdma descriptors. This reduces SATA performance (iops) quite a bit, but finally makes things work reliably. Possibly one could optimize this much more by really just skipping the holes in that memory area -- however, that seems to be non-trivial with the driver and libata in it's current form (suggestions are welcome). The 'proper' way to have good SATA performance would be to make use of the hardware RAID features (one can use the JBOD mode to access even just a single disc transparently through the RAID controller integrated in the SATA host instead of accessing the SATA ports 'raw' as we do now). [1]: https://github.com/kref/linux-oxnas/blob/master/drivers/ata/sata_oxnas.c#L25 Signed-off-by: Daniel Golle --- target/linux/oxnas/image/ox820.mk | 4 ---- 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'target/linux/oxnas/image') diff --git a/target/linux/oxnas/image/ox820.mk b/target/linux/oxnas/image/ox820.mk index 2a9295bd97..99c438f149 100644 --- a/target/linux/oxnas/image/ox820.mk +++ b/target/linux/oxnas/image/ox820.mk @@ -68,10 +68,6 @@ define Device/shuttle_kd20 DEVICE_VENDOR := Shuttle DEVICE_MODEL := KD20 SUPPORTED_DEVICES += kd20 - KERNEL_INITRAMFS_PREFIX = $$(IMAGE_PREFIX)-factory - KERNEL_INITRAMFS_SUFFIX := .tar.gz - KERNEL_INITRAMFS = kernel-bin | append-dtb | uImage none | omninas-factory | \ - encrypt-3des sohmuntitnlaes DEVICE_PACKAGES := kmod-usb2-oxnas kmod-usb3 kmod-usb-ledtrig-usbport \ kmod-i2c-gpio kmod-rtc-pcf8563 kmod-gpio-beeper kmod-hwmon-drivetemp \ kmod-hwmon-gpiofan kmod-ata-oxnas-sata kmod-md-mod kmod-md-raid0 \ -- cgit v1.2.3