Return-path: Received: from mga02.intel.com ([134.134.136.20]:58967 "EHLO mga02.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753953AbZCFATx (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Mar 2009 19:19:53 -0500 Subject: Re: kernel BUG at drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl3945-base.c:3127! From: reinette chatre To: Jason Andryuk Cc: Samuel Ortiz , Tomas Winkler , "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" In-Reply-To: <1236297052.6153.4.camel@rainbow> References: <760481.57662.qm@web57614.mail.re1.yahoo.com> <20090127162437.GA3596@sortiz.org> <1ba2fa240901272312j270eedb5x33534a9703d26e06@mail.gmail.com> <20090128113751.GA3197@sortiz.org> <1236141120.12734.2.camel@rainbow> <1236194370.6612.73.camel@rc-desk> <1236211493.6612.90.camel@rc-desk> <1236297052.6153.4.camel@rainbow> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 05 Mar 2009 16:24:45 -0800 Message-Id: <1236299085.6612.229.camel@rc-desk> (sfid-20090306_012001_149300_DF370BA4) Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, 2009-03-05 at 15:50 -0800, Jason Andryuk wrote: > On Wed, 2009-03-04 at 16:04 -0800, reinette chatre wrote: > > On Wed, 2009-03-04 at 11:47 -0800, Jason Andryuk wrote: > > > On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 2:19 PM, reinette chatre > > > wrote: > > > > On Tue, 2009-03-03 at 20:32 -0800, Jason Andryuk wrote: > > > >> On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 10:37 PM, Jason Andryuk wrote: > > > >> > I tested c2a0aa3cb733452e749727680e380dca6cc10a68 "iwl3945: use > > > >> > iwl_rb_status" with the additional patches to initialize rb_stts > > > >> > (copied from iwl_rx_queue_alloc) and to convert the BUG_ON to a > > > >> > WARN_ON. > > > >> > > > > >> > The driver runs without segfaulting. So far the WARN_ON has not been > > > >> > triggered, but the driver fails to finish authentication with the AP. > > > >> > I receive "wlan0: authentication with AP 00:30:bd:c0:90:24 timed out" > > > >> > > > >> Ok, I started poking around with manually checking interesting commits instead of git bisect. > > > >> > > > >> 55b3e21... iwl3945: use iwl-io.h and delete iwl-3945-io.h with BUG->WARN patch works. > > > >> > > > >> bb64785... iwlwifi: use iwl_cmd instead of iwl3945_cmd > > > >> fails to authenticate to the AP. It generates a Microcode SW Error attached below. > > > >> > > > >> The previous revision: > > > >> a0dedce... iwlwifi: replace IWL_ERROR with IWL_ERR > > > >> Authenticates to the AP and works just fine. > > > >> > > > >> I keep looking over commitdiff bb64785... but I cannot see what is causing problems. I even tried modifying iwl3945_cmd in various ways from a0dedce... but those attempts kept working. > > > >> > > > >> During testing, I saw a lot of UNKNOWN 0x1b > > > >> [ 8892.625374] ieee80211 phy0: I iwl3945_rx_handle r = 162, i = 160, UNKNOWN, 0x1b > > > >> Currently in the logs for commit a0dedce... it shows up as REPLY_3945_RX. > > > >> > > > >> Any ideas? > > > > > > > > Thank you very much for this digging. > > > > > > > > Are you running on 64bit? > > > > > > Yes, 64bit. > > > > could you please try this patch on top of latest wireless-testing? > > > > Thanks > > > > Reinette > > > > > > diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-3945.c b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-3945.c > > index 0a75053..00b25a8 100644 > > --- a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-3945.c > > +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-3945.c > > @@ -743,6 +743,7 @@ void iwl3945_hw_txq_free_tfd(struct iwl_priv *priv, struct iwl_tx_queue *txq) > > struct iwl3945_tfd *tfd_tmp = (struct iwl3945_tfd *)txq->tfds; > > struct iwl3945_tfd *tfd = &tfd_tmp[txq->q.read_ptr]; > > struct pci_dev *dev = priv->pci_dev; > > + int index = txq->q.read_ptr; > > int i; > > int counter; > > > > @@ -759,6 +760,13 @@ void iwl3945_hw_txq_free_tfd(struct iwl_priv *priv, struct iwl_tx_queue *txq) > > return; > > } > > > > + /* Unmap tx_cmd */ > > + if (counter) > > + pci_unmap_single(dev, > > + pci_unmap_addr(&txq->cmd[index]->meta, mapping), > > + pci_unmap_len(&txq->cmd[index]->meta, len), > > + PCI_DMA_TODEVICE); > > + > > /* unmap chunks if any */ > > > > for (i = 1; i < counter; i++) { > > Reinette, > > I applied the patch, but iwl3945 did not authenticate with my AP > oh no. I will install a 64bit system here to try and reproduce this ... Reinette