On Fri October 8 2010 13:05:51 Ben Greear wrote: > On 10/07/2010 08:12 PM, Jonathan Guerin wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 4:22 PM, Bruno Randolf<b...@einfach.org> wrote: > >> On Thu October 7 2010 14:41:18 Jonathan Guerin wrote: > >>>> I seem to be getting a kernel panic when creating an IBSS with the > >>>> latest ath5k driver. I remember Bruno submitting patches recently > >>>> which modifies the behaviour of timestamps in ath5k, so I was > >>>> wondering if this was related. > >> > >> did i? ;) i don't remember that. > >> > >>> Correction, this is not when creating an IBSS, but when bringing up an > >>> interface in monitor-mode. > >> > >> hmm... i don't see that with current wireless-testing. how do you create > >> your monitor interface? > > > > iw dev wlan0 interface add mon0 type monitor > > ifconfig mon0 up > > > >> bruno > > > > I've just tried the latest wireless-testing build (2.6.36-rc7) on two > > different machines with different hardware configurations (but both > > with ath5k). I get the same kernel panic, repeatable every time I > > bring up a monitor mode interface (or not long after, as soon as it > > sees traffic). > > > > I reverted the kernels to 2.6.35 and this crash no longer happens. I'm > > not sure if this is related to the 'rx memory clobbering' post, so I > > haven't gone and tainted it. I'm happy to provide more data if > > necessary. > > The ath5k STA/AP virtualization patch went in as well. Any chance you > could bisect to see what patch causes the problem?
and, not to forget the multi queue stuff. this opens up a few possibilites for HW races, etc... i have been running it here for month, though, but only on single CPU systems. bruno _______________________________________________ ath5k-devel mailing list ath5k-devel@lists.ath5k.org https://lists.ath5k.org/mailman/listinfo/ath5k-devel
