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Re: memory clobber in rx path, maybe related to ath9k.

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On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 11:39 AM, Ben Greear <greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 10/07/2010 11:29 AM, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 11:14 AM, Johannes Berg
>> <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Âwrote:
>>>
>>> On Thu, 2010-10-07 at 10:33 -0700, Ben Greear wrote:
>>>>
>>>> In case it helps, here is a dump of where the corrupted SKB was deleted.
>>>
>>> I wonder, do you have a machine with a decent IOMMU? Adding IOMMU
>>> debugging into the mix could help you figure out if it's a DMA problem.
>>
>> Ben, how much traffic are you RX'ing on these virtual interfaces?
>
> I disabled my user-space application, and this script alone can reproduce
> the problem fairly quickly on my system. ÂYou will need to change some
> of those first variables. ÂJust start it and wait a few minutes and
> watch the splats show on the console :)
>
> Note that I am not generating any traffic, but the wpa_supplicants are
> doing their thing of course...
>
> I'm using the kernel found here:
> http://dmz2.candelatech.com/git/gitweb.cgi?p=linux.wireless-testing.ct/.git;a=summary
>
> It's latest wireless-testing with some of my own patches, and some
> I've gathered from here an there. ÂI doubt I'm causing this problem,
> but if you can't reproduce it with this script on your kernels,
> I can try with base wireless-testing or whatever you are using.

I'll run this now, but can you try a vanilla wireless-testing? I hear
the latest wireless-testing is borked so maybe try (git reset --hard
master-2010-09-29), its what I'm on.

  Luis
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