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12 years ago

Debugging "panic: pktdemux: corrupted pkt" error

Hi,

I know there are some topics related to the error message "pktdemux: corrupted pkt". I've checked them all and none helps, most of them being related to some Quartus 9.0sp1 NicheStack release.

I have a web server application on a Nios /f, with uC/OS-ii and NicheStack, external Marvel 88E1111 GMII Phy. Quartus/EDS Software version 13.1.4 Build 182.

My observation is that if during Nios boot (or imediately after the NicheStack task was started) I ping / access the IP via browser, the Nios is likely to hang with the above message.

In ipnet.c I have added the following line: 


printf("maximum packet size %d, received %d", pkt->nb_blen and pkt->nb_plen)  //nb_blen -> raw buffer size 1536, nb_plen -> received payload length
fflush(stdout);

nb_blen, the raw buffer size is defined in ipport,h as 1536. Since only the packet payload is stored in this buffer, never should nb_plen exceed 1500. However in the situation the panic message is displayed, the received payload length is above the nb_blen. (e.g. "maximum packet size 1536, received 3106")

Can anyone give me a clue what I should be looking for?

Exactly the same software runs smoothly on a different system where the PHY is internal (with an external SFP transceiver).

Thanks!

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    12 years ago

    I was able to figgure out what causes this problem. The wrong payload was already wrong by the time Rx SG-DMA updated the status word in descriptor memory.

    It is the TSE MAC that does not generate an EOP in some scenarios - which exactly I am still investigating. With EOP missing the internal FSM of the SG-DMA does not reset length counter, so eventually a length corresponding to multiple summed-up packets is written in descriptor's status word. In the attachment you can see the invalid AvST packet and the internal SGDMA counter.