On Thu, Aug 07, 2014 at 11:11:06AM +0000, Mattis Lorentzon wrote:

Russell,

quoted

Can you ascertain whether these stalls are a result of some failure of the
receive side or the transmit side - you should be able to tell that if you watch
the packet counts via ifconfig on the stalled card.  Also, it would be useful to
know whether the FEC interrupt was firing.

grep eth /proc/interrupts
151:          0          0          0          0       GIC 151  2188000.ethernet
166:    1205661          0          0          0  gpio-mxc   6  2188000.ethernet

The interrupt counter 166 increases regularly during the stalls.
Ifconfig indicates that the RX and TX  counters do not increase.

Hmm, I'm slightly confused.  On my iMX6Q, I have:

150:     581754          0          0          0       GIC 150  2188000.ethernet
151:          0          0          0          0       GIC 151  2188000.ethernet

In the DT file, we have:

                        fec: ethernet at 02188000 {
                                compatible = "fsl,imx6q-fec";
                                reg = <0x02188000 0x4000>;
                                interrupts-extended =
                                        <&intc 0 118 IRQ_TYPE_LEVEL_HIGH>,
                                        <&intc 0 119 IRQ_TYPE_LEVEL_HIGH>;
                                clocks = <&clks 117>, <&clks 117>, <&clks 190>;
                                clock-names = "ipg", "ahb", "ptp";
                                status = "disabled";
                        };

which, for the gic, would be 118 + 32 (first SPI) = 150, 119 + 32 = 151.
Yet you seem to have nothing registered against GIC 150, instead having
an interrupt against GPIO 6.

This seems very odd, and as this is an on-SoC device, I don't see why
you would want to bind the interrupts for the FEC device any differently
to standard platforms.

This could well be the cause of your stalls.

What's GPIO 6 used for on your board?

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