On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 4:43 PM, Ben Gamari <bgam...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 1 Nov 2010 16:17:23 +0100, Björn Smedman <bjorn.smed...@venatech.se> 
> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I have an application that creates and destroys a lot of ap vifs and
>> does a lot of monitor frame injection. The recent ath9k rx locking
>> fixes have helped with stability in this use-case but there still
>> seems to be some tx/beacon related race condition(s). These manifests
>> themselves as follows on an AR913x based router running
>> compat-wireless-2010-10-19 (with locking fixes etc from openwrt):
>>
>> 1. TX DMA hangs under simultaneous high RX and TX load
>> 2. TX is completely hung but chip is never reset
>
> I have also observed both of these behaviors with just a standard
> hostapd single VIF configuration. Quite annoying. It seems to be better
> with recent wireless-testing trees.
>
> - Ben

The next thing that looks racy to me is ath_beacon_alloc() vs
ath_beacon_tasklet() in beacon.c. Beacon queue TX DMA is always
stopped in main.c before calling ath_beacon_alloc() but
ath_beacon_tasklet() is scheduled when we get an SWBA interrupt. My
guess is that these keep coming even if we stop TX DMA on the beacon
queue, no?

/Björn
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