On 05/17/2017 06:30 AM, Johannes Berg wrote:
On Wed, 2017-05-17 at 12:08 +0200, Bastian Bittorf wrote:
* Ben Greear <greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [17.05.2017 11:51]:
I have been keeping an 'iw events' program running with a perl
script gathering its
output and post-processing it. This has been working for several
years on 4.7 and earlier
kernels, but when testing on 4.9 overnight, I notice that 'iw
events' is not showing any input. 'strace' shows
that it is waiting on recvmsg. If I start a second 'iw events'
then it will get
wifi events as expected.
me too, also seen on 4.4 - i'am happy for debug ideas.
I've never seen this.
Does it happen when it's very long-running? Or when there are lots of
events?
Perhaps something in the socket buffer accounting is going wrong, so
that it's slowly decreasing to 0?
I saw it exactly once so far, and it happened overnight,
but we have not been doing a lot of work with the 4.9 kernel until recently.
I don't think there were many messages on this system, and certainly
others have run much longer on systems that should be generating many more
events without trouble.
Is there any way to dump out the socket information if we reproduce
the problem?
Thanks,
Ben
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Ben Greear <greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com
