Hi, In order to get some reasonable numbers on how single patches improve/degrade performance of mac80211 I wanted to run pktgen on a mac80211_hwsim interface. Unfortunately pktgen keeps a reference to the skb and thus pskb_expand_head triggers a BUG when called from mac80211. I worked around that issue by adding a skb_copy for shared skbs. Maybe, someone else has a better idea on how to fix that? Here's the stack trace. [ 676.030000] Kernel bug detected[#1]: [ 676.030000] Cpu 0 [ 676.030000] $ 0 : 00000000 00000000 819662ff 00000002 [ 676.030000] $ 4 : 81966200 00000020 00000000 00000020 [ 676.030000] $ 8 : 819662e0 800043c0 00000002 00020000 [ 676.030000] $12 : 3b9aca00 00000000 00000000 00470000 [ 676.030000] $16 : 80ea2000 00000000 00000000 00000000 [ 676.030000] $20 : 818aa200 80ea2018 80ea2000 00000008 [ 676.030000] $24 : 00000002 800ace5c [ 676.030000] $28 : 8199a000 8199bd20 81938f88 80f180d4 [ 676.030000] Hi : 0000026e [ 676.030000] Lo : 0000757e [ 676.030000] epc : 801245e4 pskb_expand_head+0x44/0x1d8 [ 676.030000] Not tainted [ 676.030000] ra : 80f180d4 ieee80211_skb_resize+0xb0/0x114 [mac80211] [ 676.030000] Status: 1000a403 KERNEL EXL IE [ 676.030000] Cause : 10800024 [ 676.030000] PrId : 0001964c (MIPS 24Kc) [ 676.030000] Modules linked in: mac80211_hwsim rt2800lib rt2x00soc rt2x00pci rt2x00lib mac80211 crc_itu_t crc_ccitt cfg80211 compat arc4 aes_generic deflate ecb cbc [last unloaded: rt2800pci] [ 676.030000] Process kpktgend_0 (pid: 97, threadinfo=8199a000, task=81879f48, tls=00000000) [ 676.030000] Stack : ffffffff 00000000 00000000 00000014 00000004 80ea2000 00000000 00000000 [ 676.030000] 818aa200 80f180d4 ffffffff 0000000a 81879f78 81879f48 81879f48 00000018 [ 676.030000] 81966246 80ea2000 818432e0 80f1a420 80203050 81814d98 00000001 81879f48 [ 676.030000] 81879f48 00000018 81966246 818432e0 0000001a 8199bdd4 0000001c 80f1b72c [ 676.030000] 80203020 8001292c 80ef4aa2 7f10b55d 801ab5b8 81879f48 00000188 80005c90 [ 676.030000] ... [ 676.030000] Call Trace: [ 676.030000] [<801245e4>] pskb_expand_head+0x44/0x1d8 [ 676.030000] [<80f180d4>] ieee80211_skb_resize+0xb0/0x114 [mac80211] [ 676.030000] [<80f1a420>] ieee80211_xmit+0x150/0x22c [mac80211] [ 676.030000] [<80f1b72c>] ieee80211_subif_start_xmit+0x6f4/0x73c [mac80211] [ 676.030000] [<8014361c>] pktgen_thread_worker+0xfac/0x16f8 [ 676.030000] [<8002ebe8>] kthread+0x7c/0x88 [ 676.030000] [<80008e0c>] kernel_thread_helper+0x10/0x18 [ 676.030000] [ 676.030000] [ 676.030000] Code: 24020001 10620005 2502001f <0200000d> 0804917a 00000000 2502001f 00441023 00531021 [ 676.030000] Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint [ 676.440000] Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt [ 676.460000] Rebooting in 3 seconds.. Thanks, Helmut -- 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
