I suspect that some driver bugs can cause queues to be stopped while they shouldn't be, but it's hard to find out whether that is the case or not without having any visible information about the queues. This adds a file to debugfs that allows us to see the queues' statuses. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/mac80211/debugfs.c | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++ net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h | 1 + 2 files changed, 26 insertions(+) --- wireless-testing.orig/net/mac80211/debugfs.c 2009-06-14 17:18:26.000000000 +0200 +++ wireless-testing/net/mac80211/debugfs.c 2009-06-14 17:28:07.000000000 +0200 @@ -163,6 +163,29 @@ static const struct file_operations noac .open = mac80211_open_file_generic }; +static ssize_t queues_read(struct file *file, char __user *user_buf, + size_t count, loff_t *ppos) +{ + struct ieee80211_local *local = file->private_data; + unsigned long flags; + char buf[IEEE80211_MAX_QUEUES * 20]; + int q, res = 0; + + spin_lock_irqsave(&local->queue_stop_reason_lock, flags); + for (q = 0; q < local->hw.queues; q++) + res += sprintf(buf + res, "%02d: %#.8lx/%d\n", q, + local->queue_stop_reasons[q], + __netif_subqueue_stopped(local->mdev, q)); + spin_unlock_irqrestore(&local->queue_stop_reason_lock, flags); + + return simple_read_from_buffer(user_buf, count, ppos, buf, res); +} + +static const struct file_operations queues_ops = { + .read = queues_read, + .open = mac80211_open_file_generic +}; + /* statistics stuff */ #define DEBUGFS_STATS_FILE(name, buflen, fmt, value...) \ @@ -298,6 +321,7 @@ void debugfs_hw_add(struct ieee80211_loc DEBUGFS_ADD(total_ps_buffered); DEBUGFS_ADD(wep_iv); DEBUGFS_ADD(tsf); + DEBUGFS_ADD(queues); DEBUGFS_ADD_MODE(reset, 0200); DEBUGFS_ADD(noack); @@ -350,6 +374,7 @@ void debugfs_hw_del(struct ieee80211_loc DEBUGFS_DEL(total_ps_buffered); DEBUGFS_DEL(wep_iv); DEBUGFS_DEL(tsf); + DEBUGFS_DEL(queues); DEBUGFS_DEL(reset); DEBUGFS_DEL(noack); --- wireless-testing.orig/net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h 2009-06-14 17:27:19.000000000 +0200 +++ wireless-testing/net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h 2009-06-14 17:27:25.000000000 +0200 @@ -783,6 +783,7 @@ struct ieee80211_local { struct dentry *total_ps_buffered; struct dentry *wep_iv; struct dentry *tsf; + struct dentry *queues; struct dentry *reset; struct dentry *noack; struct dentry *statistics; -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html