Re: intel 5100/iwlagn bug in 2.6.35-rc2 during large file transfer

[Richard Farina <sidhayn@gmail.com>]

reinette chatre wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-06-16 at 19:56 -0700, Richard Farina wrote:
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>> The repeated line appears ad infinitum filling my dmesg buffer.  This of 
>> hangcheck timer seem to trigger with every large file transfer on my 
>> intel 5100.  What would you like me to do to provide a more useful 
>> output as this is currently extremely easy to reproduce.  Kernel 2.6.34 
>> using compat-wireless stable 2.6.35-rc2
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>> Thanks,
>> Rick Farina
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>> phy0: failed to reallocate TX buffer
>> phy0: failed to reallocate TX buffer
>> phy0: failed to reallocate TX buffer
>> phy0: failed to reallocate TX buffer
>> phy0: failed to reallocate TX buffer
>> phy0: failed to reallocate TX buffer
>> phy0: failed to reallocate TX buffer
>>     
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> First mac80211 runs out of memory ... it cannot even allocate enough
> memory for a skb header.
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>> net_ratelimit: 22 callbacks suppressed
>> __alloc_pages_slowpath: 3799 callbacks suppressed
>> swapper: page allocation failure. order:1, mode:0x4020
>> Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.34-pentoo #5
>> Call Trace:
>>  <IRQ>  [<ffffffff8109cb74>] __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x571/0x5b9
>>  [<ffffffff816732e9>] ? skb_release_data+0xc4/0xc9
>>  [<ffffffffa04701e4>] iwlagn_rx_allocate+0x98/0x25a [iwlagn]
>>     
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> Next driver runs out of memory.
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> Note that the above are all atomic allocations that fail and should be
> able to recover. 
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> Is your system low on memory? Are you running applications that take a
> lot of memory? Does your wifi connection drop or otherwise suffer at the
> time you see these messages?
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I have 4GB of RAM on this system, I often run a VM which wastes like 
half that but that still leaves 2GB for linux and I'm running XFCE4 so 
not exactly a memory hog. It's possible that firefox leaks ram until I'm 
out but that would be a LOT of leak, much more than I usually see.

Yeah, as you may guess these errors cause my wifi connection to slow 
drastically. If I had to guess, since this happens when I make a large 
file transfer it is likely that something related is leaking RAM.  I'm 
using wget or axel to download and NFS to dump the files on a NAS.  I'll 
try to trigger this again and watch memory usage to see if I can find 
something other than the driver that could be leaking.  Failing that, 
what do I need to enable to find a leak in the driver?

Thanks,
Rick Farina

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