Re: [ath9k-devel] ath9k causes lockups since kernel 2.6.35

2011-07-12 Thread Tony Houghton
On Mon, 27 Jun 2011 18:37:00 +0800 Adrian Chadd adr...@freebsd.org wrote: Camilo, Tony, etc: Please read this article and try what they're suggesting. It has to do with an APSM commit which has negatively impacted some users (eg by causing hangs.) Sound familiar? :)

Re: [ath9k-devel] ath9k causes lockups since kernel 2.6.35

2011-06-16 Thread Tony Houghton
On Thu, 16 Jun 2011 09:48:21 +0530 Mohammed Shafi shafi.wirel...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 10:14 PM, Tony Houghton h...@realh.co.uk wrote: On Tue, 14 Jun 2011 18:50:24 +0530 Mohammed Shafi shafi.wirel...@gmail.com wrote: --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/main.c +++ b

Re: [ath9k-devel] ath9k causes lockups since kernel 2.6.35

2011-06-14 Thread Tony Houghton
On Mon, 13 Jun 2011 19:20:17 -0500 Jonathan Nieder jrnie...@gmail.com wrote: Jonathan Nieder wrote: Adrian Chadd wrote: Also, is there a kernel.org bugzilla report entry for this? I'll update it with the relevant information so the regression isn't forgotten about. Let's use

Re: [ath9k-devel] APSM, AR9285 and bus hangs

2011-06-14 Thread Tony Houghton
On Tue, 14 Jun 2011 19:47:35 +0800 Adrian Chadd adr...@freebsd.org wrote: I don't have any new thoughts, no. I think it's more likely something to do with how the bus is being setup, how APSM is being used, how power saving in general is handled, quirks of that chipset (all the laptops with

Re: [ath9k-devel] ath9k causes lockups since kernel 2.6.35

2011-06-10 Thread Tony Houghton
On Fri, 10 Jun 2011 14:53:17 +0800 Adrian Chadd adr...@freebsd.org wrote: The trouble I have right now is that I don't have any hardware that exhibits this behaviour so I can't begin to really do any in-depth debugging.. :/ Do any developers willing to work on this live in the UK, or at least

Re: [ath9k-devel] ath9k causes lockups since kernel 2.6.35

2011-06-10 Thread Tony Houghton
Good news below, read on :-). On Fri, 10 Jun 2011 21:18:37 +0800 Adrian Chadd adr...@freebsd.org wrote: It's very likely in conjunction with your chipset and kernel build options. I have a nice selection of AR9285's to choose from too. They all work fine in whatever PCIe hardware I have.

Re: [ath9k-devel] ath9k causes lockups since kernel 2.6.35

2011-06-08 Thread Tony Houghton
On Wed, 8 Jun 2011 07:22:04 +0800 Adrian Chadd adr...@freebsd.org wrote: On 8 June 2011 04:54, Tony Houghton h...@realh.co.uk wrote: My bisect log showed the last good commit was d5cdfacb35ed886271d1ccfffbded98d3447da17 and the first bad 53bc7aa08b48e5cd745f986731cc7dc24eef2a9f. I

Re: [ath9k-devel] ath9k causes lockups since kernel 2.6.35

2011-06-07 Thread Tony Houghton
On Tue, 7 Jun 2011 09:21:51 +0800 Adrian Chadd adr...@freebsd.org wrote: Ok, checking out a previous version of the wireless-testing tree (@ 53bc7aa08b48e5cd745f986731cc7dc24eef2a9f) shows that ath9k_hw_configpcipowersave() is different in that version to later versions. So moral of the

Re: [ath9k-devel] ath9k causes lockups since kernel 2.6.35

2011-06-06 Thread Tony Houghton
On Tue, 7 Jun 2011 00:52:11 +0530 Mohammed Shafi shafi.wirel...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 10:23 PM, Mohammed Shafi shafi.wirel...@gmail.com wrote: another difference I found ASPM enabled in your device(based on lspci 2.6.37-config), but not in mine.

Re: [ath9k-devel] ath9k causes lockups since kernel 2.6.35

2011-06-06 Thread Tony Houghton
On Tue, 7 Jun 2011 01:31:25 +0530 Mohammed Shafi shafi.wirel...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 1:24 AM, Tony Houghton h...@realh.co.uk wrote: OK, I'll try disabling that. Can I just use setpci as documented under Enabling ASPM with setpci on that page or do I have to make sure

Re: [ath9k-devel] ath9k causes lockups since kernel 2.6.35

2011-06-05 Thread Tony Houghton
On Sun, 5 Jun 2011 20:26:03 +0800 Adrian Chadd adr...@freebsd.org wrote: To check, find where in the proc/sys fs's regval/regidx now live, and echo 0x7868 regidx cat regval I can't find regval or regidx. Looking at another reply I can see they live in a debug subdirectory. Do I need to

Re: [ath9k-devel] ath9k causes lockups since kernel 2.6.35

2011-06-05 Thread Tony Houghton
On Sun, 5 Jun 2011 07:30:34 -0400 Camilo Mesias cam...@mesias.co.uk wrote: I have a suspicion the lockup happens in the rf off code, because I can cause the lockup reliably simply with iwconfig wlan0 tx off Can other people confirm this? Is it worth putting more defensive code in that

Re: [ath9k-devel] ath9k causes lockups since kernel 2.6.35

2011-06-04 Thread Tony Houghton
On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 9:15 PM, Tony Houghton h...@realh.co.uk wrote: [Recap: my Compaq/HP 311c Mini netbook with AR9285 locks up when the wifi connection is shut down for any reason, since kernel 2.6.35] I think if you can't reproduce it and nobody else has complained I might have

Re: [ath9k-devel] ath9k causes lockups since kernel 2.6.35

2011-06-04 Thread Tony Houghton
On Sat, 4 Jun 2011 14:56:10 -0400 Camilo Mesias cam...@mesias.co.uk wrote: I have the same hardware and the same fault, I don't think it's faulty hardware. My tale of woe is reported here too. Ah well, I suppose it's good to know I'm not the only one. More incentive for the bug to be fixed

Re: [ath9k-devel] ath9k causes lockups since kernel 2.6.35

2011-05-09 Thread Tony Houghton
[Recap: my Compaq/HP 311c Mini netbook with AR9285 locks up when the wifi connection is shut down for any reason, since kernel 2.6.35] On Mon, 21 Mar 2011 20:20:23 +0530 Mohammed Shafi shafi.wirel...@gmail.com wrote: I got a compaq machine, i will try to reproduce the issue now, most probable

Re: [ath9k-devel] ath9k causes lockups since kernel 2.6.35

2011-03-21 Thread Tony Houghton
On Mon, 21 Mar 2011 20:20:23 +0530 Mohammed Shafi shafi.wirel...@gmail.com wrote: I got a compaq machine, i will try to reproduce the issue now, most probable i will hit it. I hope so. I've just tested the fix-kernel-panic.patch you sent. I applied it to compat-wireless-2011-03-20 built

Re: [ath9k-devel] ath9k causes lockups since kernel 2.6.35

2011-03-10 Thread Tony Houghton
On Thu, 10 Mar 2011 12:02:21 +0100 AdriƠ Cereto MassaguƩ ssorga...@gmail.com wrote: I can reproduce the same issue, since kernel 2.6.35 and a AR9285. I'm also using debian (sid). Seeing we both having this issue use debian, could it be something debian-specific? I don't think so. I

Re: [ath9k-devel] ath9k causes lockups since kernel 2.6.35

2011-03-03 Thread Tony Houghton
On Thu, 3 Mar 2011 10:51:15 +0530 Mohammed Shafi shafi.wirel...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 10:00 PM, Tony Houghton h...@realh.co.uk wrote: Is this still not reproducible? I'd like to do more to help trace the problem but I'm a bit stuck. Is there something I can do to make

Re: [ath9k-devel] ath9k causes lockups since kernel 2.6.35

2011-03-03 Thread Tony Houghton
On Thu, 3 Mar 2011 21:27:32 +0530 Mohammed Shafi shafi.wirel...@gmail.com wrote: sudo modprobe ath9k debug=0x That debug option was what I needed. I'm attaching what I captured with netconsole leading up to a crash. I also found that I couldn't reproduce the problem while running on

Re: [ath9k-devel] ath9k causes lockups since kernel 2.6.35

2011-03-02 Thread Tony Houghton
On Mon, 28 Feb 2011 11:06:54 +0530 Mohammed Shafi shafi.wirel...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 12:05 AM, Tony Houghton h...@realh.co.uk wrote: I tried to reconfigure rsyslog to sync on each message but it didn't log anything useful :-(. I will try to reproduce here with my

Re: [ath9k-devel] ath9k causes lockups since kernel 2.6.35

2011-02-26 Thread Tony Houghton
On Fri, 25 Feb 2011 16:57:45 + Tony Houghton h...@realh.co.uk wrote: On Fri, 25 Feb 2011 21:37:25 +0530 Mohammed Shafi shafi.at...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 8:17 PM, Tony Houghton h...@realh.co.uk wrote: I haven't tried looking in logs because the crashes are so

Re: [ath9k-devel] ath9k causes lockups since kernel 2.6.35

2011-02-25 Thread Tony Houghton
On Fri, 25 Feb 2011 08:57:11 +0100 Sedat Dilek sedat.di...@googlemail.com wrote: Debian/experimental provides now 2.6.38-rc6 kernel packages, might be worth a test? I just tried that and at first it looked as if it might be working, because it successfully disabled and reenabled wireless (via

Re: [ath9k-devel] ath9k causes lockups since kernel 2.6.35

2011-02-25 Thread Tony Houghton
On Fri, 25 Feb 2011 13:21:32 +0530 Mohammed Shafi shafi.at...@gmail.com wrote: Tony Houghton wrote: With 2.6.37 I can not use suspend on my Compaq/HP 311c (Intel Atom N270/NVidia Ion LE). Originally the machine just kept locking up without even blanking the display when I tried

Re: [ath9k-devel] ath9k causes lockups since kernel 2.6.35

2011-02-25 Thread Tony Houghton
On Fri, 25 Feb 2011 21:37:25 +0530 Mohammed Shafi shafi.at...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 8:17 PM, Tony Houghton h...@realh.co.uk wrote: I haven't tried looking in logs because the crashes are so severe I don't think they'd be able to record anything useful. Can you