Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 14:59:48 -0700 From: Sam Leffler <sam@errno.com> To: "Giovanni P. Tirloni" <gpt@tirloni.org> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Atheros 5212 Message-ID: <42FA78D4.3080402@errno.com> In-Reply-To: <42FA551C.3080903@tirloni.org> References: <1d3ed48c05080921492e2c4988@mail.gmail.com> <42F99256.9080003@errno.com> <42FA551C.3080903@tirloni.org>
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Giovanni P. Tirloni wrote: > Sam Leffler wrote: > >> Kevin Downey wrote: >> >>> I am running a generic kernel with all the debugging knobs. >>> if I use BitTorrent or Gnutella in X the computer reboots after a few >>> minutes. >>> >>>> From the console it drops into the debugger deal. But will not give me >>> >>> >>> a crash dump. >> >> >> >> The stack trace below isn't a crash, it's just witness warning about a >> malloc w/ WAITOK while holding a lock. >> >> Try updating to BETA2 and getting a trace from the crash. Then also >> provide basic info like what you're trying to do at the time. It >> appears you're trying to use wpa_supplicant w/ WPA based on the stack >> trace. > > > I've an Atheros 5212 on my laptop and it's working with 6.0-BETA2. I'm > using just WEP. > > What I've witnessed is that unloading the module livelocks the machine > so I decided to compile it in the kernel. It's been working just fine. > I don't know what livelock means in this case. I believe current is missing a lock when clearing the node table and I haven't committed code to the crypto modules to track dynamic references and disallow unloads but any of these will cause a panic not a lockup. Sam
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