On Wed, 2020-05-13 at 06:56 -0700, Ben Greear wrote: > Hello, > > I've been running some stress tests against OpenWrt APs. My AP partially died yesterday > during a test and did not recover. It looks like firmware became non responsive, > but then it could not recover due to what I think is bugs I fixed long ago in > the kernel that I normally use. The OpenWrt image is using my ath10k-ct driver and firmware, > but stock OpenWrt kernel/mac80211 as far as I know. > > I think there are several issues: > > 1) The WARN-ON about check-sdata-in-driver should be a warn-on-once. Spamming serial > console logs like this is both very slow and also useless for debugging. > > I posted a patch with this title some time back to mitigate this problem: > "mac80211: Don't spam kernel with sdata-in-driver failures." > > 2) I suspect that the ensuing lockup may be fixed by this patch I posted > back in 12/1/2016: > "mac80211: do not iterate active interfaces when in re-configure" > > I have been running both of those patches since posting them to the list, so they have good > soak time in some strenuous wifi usage cases. Huh, these are kinda old I guess. Can you repost them? johannes
