DMAR faults?

[Ben Greear]

On 10/28/2013 02:21 AM, Kalle Valo wrote:
> Ben Greear <greearb at candelatech.com> writes:
>
>> Any idea what this means?  The 05:00.0 is the ath10k device...
>>
>> ath10k_pci 0000:05:00.0: BAR 0: assigned [mem 0xf4400000-0xf45fffff 64bit]
>> ath10k: MSI-X interrupt handling (8 intrs)
>> dmar: DRHD: handling fault status reg 3
>> dmar: DMAR:[DMA Write] Request device [05:00.0] fault addr ffe46000
>> DMAR:[fault reason 02] Present bit in context entry is clear
>
> I guess you have iommu enabled? I think that means ath10k device tried
> to write to a memory area which was not mapped by the driver.
>
>> ath10k: Hardware name qca988x hw2.0 version 0x4100016c
>> ath10k: UART prints disabled
>> ath10k: firmware 999.999.0.636 booted
>> ath10k: htt target version 2.1
>> ath10k: Completion buffers are full
>
> Timestamps would be really useful. How fast did you get that completion
> buffers are full message?

These mostly happen after I crash firmware if I remember corectly.
I haven't looked closely yet.

I'm using a normal-ish Intel core-i7 system with 64-bit Fedora 19
OS.  Probably iommu is enabled.


Thanks,
Ben

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