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From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
To: Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>
Cc: ath10k <ath10k@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: Anyone else see host machine lockups?
Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2014 08:03:45 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <53529051.2040702@candelatech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJ-Vmok6D88OHUPKhL0hXqX1RFDv42OkuChDBfEN7nB2JLM_sg@mail.gmail.com>

On 04/19/2014 07:41 AM, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> Heh, no, but back in the day this'd happen if the DMA engine wasn't
> shut down in the right order. The NIC would start DMAing crap all over
> random memory.
>
> I wonder if that's happening here.

Maybe, but I would hope that such a problem would at least often crash
the OS with some strange crashes as opposed to just silent host lockup?

Thanks,
Ben

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> -a
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> On 18 April 2014 13:09, Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com> wrote:
>> We can reliably lock up a host system (no splats, no mention of
>> firmware crashes, system just dies) when we bring up or down a
>> bunch of vifs in a system with 3 radios in a PC.
>>
>> Anyone else seeing similar?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Ben
>>
>> --
>> Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
>> Candela Technologies Inc  http://www.candelatech.com
>>
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Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Candela Technologies Inc  http://www.candelatech.com


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  reply	other threads:[~2014-04-19 15:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-04-18 20:09 Anyone else see host machine lockups? Ben Greear
2014-04-19 14:41 ` Adrian Chadd
2014-04-19 15:03   ` Ben Greear [this message]
2014-04-22  6:53 ` Michal Kazior
2014-04-22 14:44   ` Ben Greear

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