Server with 3TB Crashing at boot

[Konstantin Belousov]

On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 04:26:07PM +0100, Michael Fuckner wrote:
> On 3/14/2015 3:56 PM, Konstantin Belousov wrote:
> > On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 03:41:55PM +0100, Michael Fuckner wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> In the Processor Configuration tab there also was
> >>>> extended apic support (default is disabled)
> >>> On 10.1 this option should not result in any behaviour change.
> >>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Should I give this option a try?
> >>>
> >>> Up to you.  I am somewhat curious whether it boots with DMAR enabled and
> >>> what happens if it does not.
> >>> ____
> >>
> >> looks good, doesn't it?
> >>
> >> http://dedi3.fuckner.net/~molli123/temp/dmar.log
> > No, it does not.  At least I suspect that your ix* interfaces are not
> > functional.  The issue is with DMAR code, not with the ixgbe driver, and
> > it was probably fixed in stable/10.
> 
> why do you think it is not working?
> 
> root at s4l:~ # ping dedi3.fuckner.net
> PING dedi3.fuckner.net (81.169.184.133): 56 data bytes
> 64 bytes from 81.169.184.133: icmp_seq=0 ttl=56 time=15.522 ms
> 64 bytes from 81.169.184.133: icmp_seq=1 ttl=56 time=11.266 ms
Ok.

I looked at the lines
DMAR1: <unknown dev>:pci3:0:0 fault acc 0 adt 0x0 reason 0x5 addr 0

Due to the nature of the bug, the pci rid above could be unrelated.
Anyway, good that ix* work, but it is not clear which device transfer
faulted.

> 
> 
> 
> [root at mf5 ~]# grep ix0 dmar.log
> ix0: Link is Down
> ix0: link state changed to DOWN
> ix0: <Intel(R) PRO/10GbE PCI-Express Network Driver, Version - 2.5.15> 
> port 0x4020-0x403f mem 0xaaa00000-0xaabfffff,0xaac04000-0xaac07fff irq 
> 32 at device 0.0 on pci1
> ix0: attempting to allocate 9 MSI-X vectors (64 supported)
> ix0: using IRQs 272-280 for MSI-X
> ix0: Using MSIX interrupts with 9 vectors
> ix0: dmar3 pci0:1:0:0 domain 2 mgaw 48 agaw 48 re-mapped
> ix0: bpf attached
> ix0: Ethernet address: c4:54:44:92:73:d2
> ix0: PCI Express Bus: Speed 5.0GT/s Width x8
> ix0: Link is up 1 Gbps Full Duplex
> ix0: ix0: link state changed to UP
> ix0: link state changed to DOWN
> Starting Network: lo0 ix0 ix1 ix2 ix3.
> ix0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
>          nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFix0: LiDISABLED,AUTO_LInk is up 1 
> Gbps Full Duplex
>          mediaix0: link state changed : Ethernet autosto UP
> DHCPREQUEST on ix0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
> 
> 
> I'll checkout STABLE to check now...
Thank you.