Hi Heiner, Thanks for your response. Request info follows..
> > Hi, after updating to kernel 5.0, the nic driver (r8169) has been
> > crashing whenever I start using heavy traffic on it (for example,
> > xferring large files to the box across my lan). The destination
> > harddrive may be sleeping and need to spin-up, or not, but the box
> > itself does not suspend/hibernate. The nic becomes completely
> > unresponsive and all connections to the box drop. After what I think
> > is several minutes, the connection comes back to life. The problem
> > happens consistently but seemingly not consistently at the same point.
> > For example, I can xfer a few 4gb files and it will crash at around
> > 2-3gb on the first file. The next time it might not crash until 2-3gb
> > on the second file.Prior to kernel 5.0 I was using 4.19.12 and this
> > problem didn't occur. I have since downgraded back to 4.19.12 pending
> > what response this post gets.
> >
> Thanks for the report. Helpful would be:
> - full dmesg output
Added as attachment.
> - "lspci -vv" output (as root) for the network card
04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 06)
Subsystem: Elitegroup Computer Systems RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI
Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop-
ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx+
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort-
<TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 17
Region 0: I/O ports at c000 [size=256]
Region 2: Memory at d0004000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=4K]
Region 4: Memory at d0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 3
Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=375mA
PME(D0+,D1+,D2+,D3hot+,D3cold+)
Status: D0 NoSoftRst+ PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
Capabilities: [50] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
Address: 0000000000000000 Data: 0000
Capabilities: [70] Express (v2) Endpoint, MSI 01
DevCap: MaxPayload 128 bytes, PhantFunc 0, Latency L0s
<512ns, L1 <64us
ExtTag- AttnBtn- AttnInd- PwrInd- RBE+
FLReset- SlotPowerLimit 0.000W
DevCtl: Report errors: Correctable- Non-Fatal- Fatal-
Unsupported-
RlxdOrd- ExtTag- PhantFunc- AuxPwr- NoSnoop-
MaxPayload 128 bytes, MaxReadReq 4096 bytes
DevSta: CorrErr- UncorrErr- FatalErr- UnsuppReq-
AuxPwr+ TransPend-
LnkCap: Port #0, Speed 2.5GT/s, Width x1, ASPM L0s L1,
Exit Latency L0s unlimited, L1 <64us
ClockPM+ Surprise- LLActRep- BwNot- ASPMOptComp-
LnkCtl: ASPM Disabled; RCB 64 bytes Disabled- CommClk+
ExtSynch- ClockPM- AutWidDis- BWInt- AutBWInt-
LnkSta: Speed 2.5GT/s, Width x1, TrErr- Train-
SlotClk+ DLActive- BWMgmt- ABWMgmt-
DevCap2: Completion Timeout: Range ABCD, TimeoutDis+,
LTR-, OBFF Not Supported
DevCtl2: Completion Timeout: 50us to 50ms,
TimeoutDis-, LTR-, OBFF Disabled
LnkCtl2: Target Link Speed: 2.5GT/s, EnterCompliance- SpeedDis-
Transmit Margin: Normal Operating Range,
EnterModifiedCompliance- ComplianceSOS-
Compliance De-emphasis: -6dB
LnkSta2: Current De-emphasis Level: -6dB,
EqualizationComplete-, EqualizationPhase1-
EqualizationPhase2-, EqualizationPhase3-,
LinkEqualizationRequest-
Capabilities: [b0] MSI-X: Enable+ Count=4 Masked-
Vector table: BAR=4 offset=00000000
PBA: BAR=4 offset=00000800
Capabilities: [d0] Vital Product Data
Not readable
Capabilities: [100 v1] Advanced Error Reporting
UESta: DLP- SDES- TLP- FCP- CmpltTO- CmpltAbrt-
UnxCmplt- RxOF- MalfTLP- ECRC- UnsupReq- ACSViol-
UEMsk: DLP- SDES- TLP- FCP- CmpltTO- CmpltAbrt-
UnxCmplt- RxOF- MalfTLP- ECRC- UnsupReq- ACSViol-
UESvrt: DLP+ SDES+ TLP- FCP+ CmpltTO- CmpltAbrt-
UnxCmplt- RxOF+ MalfTLP+ ECRC- UnsupReq- ACSViol-
CESta: RxErr- BadTLP- BadDLLP- Rollover- Timeout- NonFatalErr-
CEMsk: RxErr- BadTLP- BadDLLP- Rollover- Timeout- NonFatalErr+
AERCap: First Error Pointer: 00, GenCap+ CGenEn- ChkCap+ ChkEn-
Capabilities: [140 v1] Virtual Channel
Caps: LPEVC=0 RefClk=100ns PATEntryBits=1
Arb: Fixed- WRR32- WRR64- WRR128-
Ctrl: ArbSelect=Fixed
Status: InProgress-
VC0: Caps: PATOffset=00 MaxTimeSlots=1 RejSnoopTrans-
Arb: Fixed- WRR32- WRR64- WRR128- TWRR128- WRR256-
Ctrl: Enable+ ID=0 ArbSelect=Fixed TC/VC=01
Status: NegoPending- InProgress-
Capabilities: [160 v1] Device Serial Number 40-01-00-00-68-4c-e0-00
Kernel driver in use: r8169
> - ethtool -S <if> output
Unfortunately I just realized I did this _after_ ifdown/ifup'ing the
nic to get it back online so this is probably useless but I'll include
it anyway. If I get it to crash again I'll try to remember to get this
before restarting the nic:
NIC statistics:
tx_packets: 8844844
rx_packets: 23550316
tx_errors: 0
rx_errors: 0
rx_missed: 13
align_errors: 0
tx_single_collisions: 0
tx_multi_collisions: 0
unicast: 23544796
broadcast: 4420
multicast: 1100
tx_aborted: 0
tx_underrun: 0
> Can you test a recent 4.20 kernel? This would narrow down the number
> of potentially problematic patches.
I compiled and test 4.20.15 and didn't experience any crashing. I then
switched back to 5.0.0 and this time I had to transfer significantly
more until the crash occured. I'm not sure but it seems like the
crashes happen when there's both outgoing & incoming traffic
simultaneously. Is the dmesg crash info helpful at all?
Thanks,
Derek
crash.dmesg.log
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