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Date:      Wed, 7 Sep 2011 12:59:21 +0200
From:      Bernhard Schmidt <bschmidt@freebsd.org>
To:        Joel Dahl <joel@vnode.se>
Cc:        freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: BETA2 panic
Message-ID:  <CAAgh0_Y6HEGmqW9-FXig5F5fQ%2B6HSz_j9SY0DupUjZidkMFRLA@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 12:53, Joel Dahl <joel@vnode.se> wrote:
> On 07-09-2011 10:59, Bernhard Schmidt wrote:
>> On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 22:42, Joel Dahl <joel@vnode.se> wrote:
>> > On 05-09-2011 =A09:02, Bernhard Schmidt wrote:
>> >> On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 08:24, Joel Dahl <joel@vnode.se> wrote:
>> >> > On 05-09-2011 =A05:09, Adrian Chadd wrote:
>> >> >> On 5 September 2011 01:04, Joel Dahl <joel@vnode.se> wrote:
>> >> >> > Hi,
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > I upgraded my laptop from BETA1 to rev. 225367 today, and now my=
 laptop panics just a few minutes after booting. This is 100% reproducible,=
 it panics every time.
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > I've got a pic with the backtrace here: http://www.vnode.se/sc/p=
anic_20110904.jpg
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Hi,
>> >> >>
>> >> >> There weren't many commits between BETA1 and -HEAD in the wireless
>> >> >> area; would you please do a binary search of the kernel revisions =
(no
>> >> >> need to do full buildworlds) to find which commit broke it?
>> >> >
>> >> > Yes, I'll do that tonight.
>> >>
>> >> While doing so, can you enable at least some debugging?
>> >> wlandebug +state
>> >> or even better
>> >> wlandebug 0xffffffff
>> >>
>> >> It smells like that something is poking the SW bmiss handler while no=
t
>> >> in RUN state and therefore you're hitting a KASSERT(). Question is if
>> >> the bmiss timer isn't stopped/drained somewhere or if there is too
>> >> excessive call.
>> >
>> > Exactly what in the wlandebug output are you looking for? =A0I've post=
ed a pic
>> > at http://www.vnode.se/sc/panic_20110906.jpg showing what it looks lik=
e right
>> > before the panic. =A0This is with "wlandebug 0xffffffff".
>>
>> Thanks, so, looks like it is scanning while the panic happens. At that
>> point it should actually never ever care about beacon misses.. this is
>> strange, really.
>>
>> Can you try to comment out the call to ieee80211_beacon_miss() on line
>> 2936 in if_iwn.c? If the panic no longer happens the issue is
>> somewhere in the conditions before that call.
>
> Hm, this is with bwn(4), not iwn(4). :)

Uhm.. right, I'm sorry, missed that

Still.. two options, remove IEEE80211_FEXT_SWBMISS or try with
ifconfig wlan0 -bgscan

--
Bernhard



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