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Re: Help debugging iwldvm / ath10k stalls

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On Sun, May 25, 2014 at 10:39 PM, Emmanuel Grumbach <egrumbach@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 8:06 AM, Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Sun, May 25, 2014 at 10:23 AM, Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> I have an old iwldvm station (Intel(R) Centrino(R) Ultimate-N 6300
>>> AGN, REV=0x74) and a new ath10k AP (QCA9880-BR4A, I think, as found in
>>> the TP-Link Archer C7 vs).  The former is Fedora's 3.14 kernel and the
>>> latter is OpenWRT trunk from a few days ago.
>>>
>>> Every now and then, my connection drops out.  From wireshark on the
>>> station, it looks like traffic from the AP to the STA is coming
>>> through but traffic from the STA to the AP is not.  I could be wrong
>>> here, though.  Nothing is logged in either machine's kernel log.
>>> After 5 seconds to a couple minutes, everything starts working again.
>>>
>>> A couple of Apple devices using the same radio on the same AP seem to work fine.
>>>
>>> Any advice for debugging this?  I don't know where to start.
>>
>> I caught one of the stalls with iwlwifi debugging on.  I've attached
>> the dmesg.  The stall ended ten seconds or so before the end of this
>> trace.  Is this an indication that something's wrong with iwlwifi?
>>
>> [151258.096091] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: U iwlagn_good_plcp_health plcp health thre
>> shold 50 delta 96 msecs 103
>> [151258.096095] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: U iwl_force_rf_reset perform radio reset.
>>
> Can you please disable powersave?
> It seems that it should be disabled by default, but you enabled it?
> I might be confused though... Looking again at the code...

This?

$ cat /sys/module/iwlwifi/parameters/power_save
N

I have pcie_aspm.policy=powersave, but I don't think that should
matter.  Or am I missing something?

--Andy
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