Re: head -r365677 and later do not have the xhci related DMA problem fixed

Mark Millard via freebsd-arm <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.arm
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2020-Sep-24, at 13:24, Mark Millard <marklmi at yahoo.com> wrote:

> On 2020-Sep-24, at 12:04, Mark Millard <marklmi at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
>> I finally got around to updating the systems that I have access
>> to, including the 8 GiByte RPi4B, from head -r363590 to -r363932 .
>> This puts the sytem after then head -r365677 check in of the
>> attempted DMA fix that involved restricting the xhci DMA range to
>> 1 GiByte.
>> 
>> I've tested head -r363932 under uefi/ACPI v1.20 with the
>> 3072 limit disabled and it failed the large file duplicate
>> and diff/cmp test:
>> 
>> # cp -aRx /usr/obj/clang-armv7-on-aarch64.tar /usr/obj/clang-armv7-on-aarch64.alt_tar
>> # diff /usr/obj/clang-armv7-on-aarch64.tar /usr/obj/clang-armv7-on-aarch64.alt_tar
>> Binary files /usr/obj/clang-armv7-on-aarch64.tar and /usr/obj/clang-armv7-on-aarch64.alt_tar differ
>> # cmp -l /usr/obj/clang-armv7-on-aarch64.tar /usr/obj/clang-armv7-on-aarch64.alt_tar | head -30
>> 2633269249   3   0
>> 2633269251   3   0
>> 2633269252  55   0
>> 2633269253   6   0
>> 2633269254  21   0
>> 2633269255 227   0
>> 2633269256   1   0
>> 2633269257 135   0
>> 2633269258 336   0
>> 2633269259  22 140
>> 2633269260   0 100
>> 2633269261 346   0
>> 2633269262 353   0
>> 2633269265 227   0
>> 2633269266   1 160
>> 2633269267 170 140
>> 2633269268 336 100
>> 2633269269  22   0
>> 2633269271 362   0
>> 2633269272 353   0
>> 2633269275 227   0
>> 2633269276   1   0
>> 2633269277 225   0
>> 2633269278 336   0
>> 2633269279  22   0
>> 2633269281 376   0
>> 2633269282 353   1
>> 2633269285   0   1
>> 2633269289   0 223
>> 2633269290   0 321
>> 
>> For reference:
>> 
>> # ls -ldT /usr/obj/clang-armv7-on-aarch64*
>> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  11570948096 Jul 18 18:32:37 2020 /usr/obj/clang-armv7-on-aarch64.alt_tar
>> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  11570948096 Jul 18 18:32:37 2020 /usr/obj/clang-armv7-on-aarch64.tar
>> 
>> (So the over 10 GiByte original file is significantly larger than the
>> 8 GiByte RAM.)
>> 
> 
> I figured I'd gather some more evidence by putting back the
> 3072 MiByte limit and diff'ing/cmp'ing the above files and
> then making another duplicate and diff'ing it.
> 
> # diff /usr/obj/clang-armv7-on-aarch64.tar /usr/obj/clang-armv7-on-aarch64.alt_tar 
> Binary files /usr/obj/clang-armv7-on-aarch64.tar and /usr/obj/clang-armv7-on-aarch64.alt_tar differ
> # cmp -l /usr/obj/clang-armv7-on-aarch64.tar /usr/obj/clang-armv7-on-aarch64.alt_tar | head -30
> 2633269249   3   0
> 2633269251   3   0
> 2633269252  55   0
> 2633269253   6   0
> 2633269254  21   0
> 2633269255 227   0
> 2633269256   1   0
> 2633269257 135   0
> 2633269258 336   0
> 2633269259  22 140
> 2633269260   0 100
> 2633269261 346   0
> 2633269262 353   0
> 2633269265 227   0
> 2633269266   1 160
> 2633269267 170 140
> 2633269268 336 100
> 2633269269  22   0
> 2633269271 362   0
> 2633269272 353   0
> 2633269275 227   0
> 2633269276   1   0
> 2633269277 225   0
> 2633269278 336   0
> 2633269279  22   0
> 2633269281 376   0
> 2633269282 353   1
> 2633269285   0   1
> 2633269289   0 223
> 2633269290   0 321
> 
> So the copy made without the 3072 MiByte limit appears to be
> corrupt as written: it looks like the error is not just at
> diff/cmp time.
> 
> Making and testing a .alt2_tar copy:
> 
> # cp -aRx /usr/obj/clang-armv7-on-aarch64.tar /usr/obj/clang-armv7-on-aarch64.alt2_tar
> # cp -aRx /usr/obj/clang-armv7-on-aarch64.tar /usr/obj/clang-armv7-on-aarch64.alt2_tar
> # diff /usr/obj/clang-armv7-on-aarch64.tar /usr/obj/clang-armv7-on-aarch64.alt2_tar 
> # 

The duplicated cp line is a copy/paste error: I had copied/pasted
the cp line before it finished and copied/pasted the 3 lines after
the diff completed --but I did not replace the original cp line
like I should have.

Only noted so that the structure of my test procedure can be followed
as it actually was executed.

> So, with the 3072 MiByte limit: no evidence of a problem with duplicating
> the huge file and diff'ing the result.


===
Mark Millard
marklmi at yahoo.com
( dsl-only.net went
away in early 2018-Mar)

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