Intel X520-DA2, kernel: CRITICAL: ECC ERROR!! Please Reboot!!

Guest

have you tried rebooting?

miloman

I've seen that too on one of our test systems. Haven't seen it on any production systems yet. I'm not sure what it means, haven't had time to look into it in much depth yet. -RELEASE wouldn't be any different, the driver didn't change since pre-RC2.

Even though it doesn't help me, your post gave me more information than google. :)

I have commercial support, so i'll ask "the guys" and see what they have to say.

miloman

@gonzopancho:

have you tried rebooting?

Haven't we all?

gaulfinger

I have two pfsense test units with 10Gb-Base-LR Intel cards. Neither had this error on 2.03. Both started after the 2.1-RELEASE upgrade.

jimp

For those seeing this error, do the NICs actually function when they hit this error? Or do they stop passing traffic?

wladikz

Hi,

NICs are working but some problem with MBUF reuse. i have 2 firewalls with x520-DA2 and x540-T2 cards that crash every 8 hours after MBUFs hit 100%.
i have 512000 MBUFs defined on each system. i need to find solution for this problem ASAP.

msi

Hmm, I also get this error with a X520-DA2 on an IBM box after updating to 2.1.
I upgraded from a -RC0 around July, that was before the last ixgbe Update before shipping -RELEASE
I have the VLAN fix as per wiki documentation.

I'll have some chances to beat that thing a little bit and see how the MBUFs develop.
Otherwise I'll have to presto go back to 2.1-RC0 which was rock-solid (sorry to say I wasn't able to give -RC1/2 any beating) :-\

Update: I might give the .ko module from FreeBSD 8.3 or 8.4 a try - as workaround - since my RC0 at least shipped the version that was (almost) equivalent to what went into 8.4.

wladikz

@MatSim:

Hmm, I also get this error with a X520-DA2 on an IBM box after updating to 2.1.
I upgraded from a -RC0 around July, that was before the last ixgbe Update before shipping -RELEASE
I have the VLAN fix as per wiki documentation.

I'll have some chances to beat that thing a little bit and see how the MBUFs develop.
Otherwise I'll have to presto go back to 2.1-RC0 which was rock-solid (sorry to say I wasn't able to give -RC1/2 any beating) :-\

Update: I might give the .ko module from FreeBSD 8.3 or 8.4 a try - as workaround - since my RC0 at least shipped the version that was (almost) equivalent to what went into 8.4.

can you upload your .ko module? i'll try to see if the mbuf problem exists or not

msi

Hi all

While it's certainly not great to see that this issue slipped into 2.1-RELEASE I've heard from ESF crew, that they are actively working on a fix for this issue. If you want to join forces, offer them some of your support hours so they can work for this on paid basis. Anyhow, my not-so quick fiddlings on my part:

The plain, but old ixgbe 2.4.5 from 8.3-RELEASE works with the X520-DA2 I have here.
An experiment with 8.3's source tree + cherry-picks of 8.4's ixgbe paniced about at the level of boot comand disabling the VLAN filter (that was needed since RC0 for VLANs)

You can get the modules that I tried on my box here: http://id.gymkl.ch/pfsense/ixgbe
That said: This all is not endorsed by ESF crew or anyone else (not even myself). This may, or may not cause problems on your systems, nonetheless, if you are brave give it a try for workaround.


# On the pfSense shell
cd /boot/kernel
fetch http://id.gymkl.ch/pfsense/ixgbe/ixgbe2.4.5-fbsd8.3-amd64.ko
chmod 555 ixgbe2.4.5-fbsd8.3-amd64.ko

Afterwards you add the following line to your /boot/loader.conf.local and then reboot the system:


ixgbe2.4.5-fbsd8.3-amd64_load="YES"

You should see the ixgbe 2.4.5 version being loaded in /var/log/dmesg.boot afterwards.

wladikz

hi,

As i remember ixgbe version 2.4.5 has problems with VLANs. can some one check?

msi

I have a couple of VLANs on one of my ix interfaces, yes they do work without hickups here as for now. fingers crossed

You can easily check if VLANs are passing through when you fire up a 'tcpdump -i ix<number>_vlan<id>'. If you only see traffic on ix<number>, but not on the VLAN interface then you may want to give that VLAN hw filter a try like it is found on the wiki documentation. I currently have that set from -RC0 times.

Although remember this was not required until some builds that brough newer ixgbe drivers with lat BETA and RC builds. I also have followed Intels ixgbe instructions for loader.conf(.local) for the mbufs where they recommend larger nmbcluster than for the 1GE models. The num_queues options was select to 4 since this system has 4 cores / 4 threads so it can use up to 4 queues not use more (and possibly exhaust CPU capacity).


kern.ipc.nmbclusters=262144
kern.ipc.nmbjumbop=262144
hw.ixgbe.num_queues="4"
ixgbe2.4.5-fbsd8.3-amd64_load="YES"

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wladikz

hi,

2.4.5 don't support one of my 10G cards :'( Can some one to compile 2.5.1 or 2.5.8?

msi

Try 2.5.0 that is uploaded alongside, but as said.

It made my box panic, but it may work for you, give it a try.

It is line by line the same code as is in 8.4 and 8-STABLE.

wladikz

i'll try to set my own build environment for 2.1 and i'll try to build

rbgarga

I built a new 2.5.15 driver, with some fixes. Could you try it and let me know how it goes?

You can get it at http://files.pfsense.org/garga/ixgbe_modules/2.1/

Just put the ixgbe.ko at /boot/modules and add the following line to /boot/loader.conf.local

ixgbe_load="YES"

Best regards

wladikz

@Renato:

I built a new 2.5.15 driver, with some fixes. Could you try it and let me know how it goes?

You can get it at http://files.pfsense.org/garga/ixgbe_modules/2.1/

Just put the ixgbe.ko at /boot/modules and add the following line to /boot/loader.conf.local

ixgbe_load="YES"

Best regards

can you post also fixes?

wladikz

@Renato:

I built a new 2.5.15 driver, with some fixes. Could you try it and let me know how it goes?

You can get it at http://files.pfsense.org/garga/ixgbe_modules/2.1/

Just put the ixgbe.ko at /boot/modules and add the following line to /boot/loader.conf.local

ixgbe_load="YES"

Best regards

system crashed :'(

crashreport.txt

msi

Thanks Renato, although wladikz wasn't really lucky, it though seems that there are either different X520-DA2 revisions in the wild or he has another ix card.

I'll give that module tomorrow a try. At least 2.4.5 - if it recognizes the card - seems to work for "older" cards by now.

msi

Hi renato, thank you for your efforts, but unfortunately I have the same issue as wladikz and had to revert to 2.4.5:

The system boots and loads 2.5.15
Seems to go until NIC initialization (post-kernel stuff, pfSense outputs) and panics

-> I've uploaded the crash log through the Web-UI if that helps and additionnaly to help identify potentially different boards, here is both pciconf and dmesg.boot outputs:


ix0@pci0:17:0:0:        class=0x020000 card=0x7a128086 chip=0x10fb8086 rev=0x01 hdr=0x00
    class      = network
    subclass   = ethernet
ix1@pci0:17:0:1:        class=0x020000 card=0x7a128086 chip=0x10fb8086 rev=0x01 hdr=0x00
    class      = network
    subclass   = ethernet

dmesg.boot


ix0: <intel(r) pro="" 10gbe="" pci-express="" network="" driver,="" version="" -="" 2.4.5="">port 0x2fc0-0x2fdf mem 0x91200000-0x912fffff,0x910fc000-0x910fffff irq 32 at device 0.0 on pci17
ix0: Using MSIX interrupts with 5 vectors
ix0: [ITHREAD]
ix0: [ITHREAD]
ix0: [ITHREAD]
ix0: [ITHREAD]
ix0: [ITHREAD]
ix0: PCI Express Bus: Speed 5.0Gb/s Width x8
ix1: <intel(r) pro="" 10gbe="" pci-express="" network="" driver,="" version="" -="" 2.4.5="">port 0x2fe0-0x2fff mem 0x91100000-0x911fffff,0x910f8000-0x910fbfff irq 36 at device 0.1 on pci17
ix1: Using MSIX interrupts with 5 vectors
ix1: [ITHREAD]
ix1: [ITHREAD]
ix1: [ITHREAD]
ix1: [ITHREAD]
ix1: [ITHREAD]
ix1: PCI Express Bus: Speed 5.0Gb/s Width x8</intel(r)></intel(r)>

rbgarga

Hello guys,

Since I don't have hardware I cannot test the patches, but, I found 2 merge issues that were ending with duplicate code. So I did the merge again, revision by revision, and built a module for any of following versions:

2.5.0-8
2.5.7
2.5.8
2.5.13
2.5.15

This 2.5.15 is different from the old one I posted here few days ago.

I built versions >= 2.5.13 with IXGBE_LEGACY_TX option defined to make it work with ALTQ.

You can find all these versions at:

http://files.pfsense.org/garga/ixgbe_modules/2.1/

Please let me know the results when you are able to test it.