On Thu, 2008-09-25 at 15:11 +0200, Andres Freund wrote:

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> I don't know if this is relevant, but I though i better report it.

Thanks. I've also been chasing a DMA corruption issue with iwlagn (on
powerpc).

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> This was on fb478da5ba69ecf40729ae8ab37ca406b1e5be48 - sometime after 2.6=
.27-
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> rc7
>=20
> I stumbled over two buglets:
> First:
> [ 4184.617392] DMAR:[DMA Read] Request device [03:00.0] fault addr fa9460=
00=20
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> [ 4184.617393] DMAR:[fault reason 06] PTE Read access is not set
> [ 4184.644081] iwlagn: Microcode HW error detected.  Restarting.
> [ 4186.646000] psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio1/input0 lost synchron=
ization, throwing 1 bytes away.
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> [ 4186.683034] Registered led device: iwl-phy0:radio
> [ 4186.683478] Registered led device: iwl-phy0:assoc
> [ 4186.683793] Registered led device: iwl-phy0:RX
> [ 4186.684094] Registered led device: iwl-phy0:TX
> [ 4186.689749] wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:1d:7e:42:fe:42
> [ 4186.691691] wlan0: authenticated
> [ 4186.691705] wlan0: associate with AP 00:1d:7e:42:fe:42
> [ 4186.696380] wlan0: RX ReassocResp from 00:1d:7e:42:fe:42 (capab=3D0x41=
1 status=3D0 aid=3D2)
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> [ 4186.696392] wlan0: associated
>=20
> Most of the time when this happened, the machine wasnt reacting for 1-3=20
> seconds and had audio buffer underruns, but I also had a hard lockup whic=
h I=20
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> couldnt diagnose so far.

I suspect the hard lockup was due to a BUG_ON in the iwlagn driver, if
you can reproduce this either try applying the patch here [1] or going
to a VC to see if it crashes there. It's a BUG_ON in iwl-tx.c.

johannes

[1] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.wireless.general/21226