On Thu, 2008-09-25 at 15:11 +0200, Andres Freund wrote: > I don't know if this is relevant, but I though i better report it. Thanks. I've also been chasing a DMA corruption issue with iwlagn (on powerpc). > This was on fb478da5ba69ecf40729ae8ab37ca406b1e5be48 - sometime after 2.6.27- > rc7 > > I stumbled over two buglets: > First: > [ 4184.617392] DMAR:[DMA Read] Request device [03:00.0] fault addr fa946000 > [ 4184.617393] DMAR:[fault reason 06] PTE Read access is not set > [ 4184.644081] iwlagn: Microcode HW error detected. Restarting. > [ 4186.646000] psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio1/input0 lost synchronization, throwing 1 bytes away. > [ 4186.683034] Registered led device: iwl-phy0:radio > [ 4186.683478] Registered led device: iwl-phy0:assoc > [ 4186.683793] Registered led device: iwl-phy0:RX > [ 4186.684094] Registered led device: iwl-phy0:TX > [ 4186.689749] wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:1d:7e:42:fe:42 > [ 4186.691691] wlan0: authenticated > [ 4186.691705] wlan0: associate with AP 00:1d:7e:42:fe:42 > [ 4186.696380] wlan0: RX ReassocResp from 00:1d:7e:42:fe:42 (capab=0x411 status=0 aid=2) > [ 4186.696392] wlan0: associated > > Most of the time when this happened, the machine wasnt reacting for 1-3 > seconds and had audio buffer underruns, but I also had a hard lockup which I > couldnt diagnose so far. I suspect the hard lockup was due to a BUG_ON in the iwlagn driver, if you can reproduce this either try applying the patch here [1] or going to a VC to see if it crashes there. It's a BUG_ON in iwl-tx.c. johannes [1] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.wireless.general/21226
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