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From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
To: "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: ath5k/mac80211:  Reproducible deadlock with 64-stations.
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2010 15:02:32 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CDB2488.4040802@candelatech.com> (raw)

We started up our strenuous wifi testing again, with this morning's wireless-testing
(plus some of our own non-wifi-related patches).

We have a reproducible kernel hang when attempting to quickly
create and configure 64 STA interfaces, no encryption, with
an ath5k NIC.

It appears to me that this may be a general mac80211 deadlock
from the 'sysrq d' output below.

We'll attempt to reproduce with a lesser-patched wireless-testing
in the meantime.


Nov 10 14:54:33 localhost kernel: SysRq : Show Locks Held
Nov 10 14:54:33 localhost kernel:
Nov 10 14:54:33 localhost kernel: Showing all locks held in the system:
Nov 10 14:54:33 localhost kernel: 3 locks held by kworker/0:0/4:
Nov 10 14:54:33 localhost kernel: #0:  (events){+.+.+.}, at: [<c0446ded>] process_one_work+0x13e/0x2bf
Nov 10 14:54:33 localhost kernel: #1:  ((linkwatch_work).work){+.+.+.}, at: [<c0446ded>] process_one_work+0x13e/0x2bf
Nov 10 14:54:33 localhost kernel: #2:  (rtnl_mutex){+.+.+.}, at: [<c070220f>] rtnl_lock+0xf/0x11
Nov 10 14:54:33 localhost kernel: 1 lock held by ntpd/1675:
Nov 10 14:54:33 localhost kernel: #0:  (rtnl_mutex){+.+.+.}, at: [<c070220f>] rtnl_lock+0xf/0x11
Nov 10 14:54:33 localhost kernel: 1 lock held by bash/2182:
Nov 10 14:54:33 localhost kernel: #0:  (&tty->atomic_read_lock){+.+...}, at: [<c060f4a5>] n_tty_read+0x1d2/0x5ee
Nov 10 14:54:33 localhost kernel: 1 lock held by bash/2199:
Nov 10 14:54:33 localhost kernel: #0:  (&tty->atomic_read_lock){+.+...}, at: [<c060f4a5>] n_tty_read+0x1d2/0x5ee
Nov 10 14:54:33 localhost kernel: 1 lock held by mingetty/2517:
Nov 10 14:54:33 localhost kernel: #0:  (&tty->atomic_read_lock){+.+...}, at: [<c060f4a5>] n_tty_read+0x1d2/0x5ee
Nov 10 14:54:33 localhost kernel: 1 lock held by mingetty/2518:
Nov 10 14:54:33 localhost kernel: #0:  (&tty->atomic_read_lock){+.+...}, at: [<c060f4a5>] n_tty_read+0x1d2/0x5ee
Nov 10 14:54:33 localhost kernel: 1 lock held by mingetty/2519:
Nov 10 14:54:33 localhost kernel: #0:  (&tty->atomic_read_lock){+.+...}, at: [<c060f4a5>] n_tty_read+0x1d2/0x5ee
Nov 10 14:54:33 localhost kernel: 1 lock held by mingetty/2520:
Nov 10 14:54:33 localhost kernel: #0:  (&tty->atomic_read_lock){+.+...}, at: [<c060f4a5>] n_tty_read+0x1d2/0x5ee
Nov 10 14:54:33 localhost kernel: 1 lock held by mingetty/2521:
Nov 10 14:54:33 localhost kernel: #0:  (&tty->atomic_read_lock){+.+...}, at: [<c060f4a5>] n_tty_read+0x1d2/0x5ee
Nov 10 14:54:33 localhost kernel: 1 lock held by mingetty/2522:
Nov 10 14:54:33 localhost kernel: #0:  (&tty->atomic_read_lock){+.+...}, at: [<c060f4a5>] n_tty_read+0x1d2/0x5ee
Nov 10 14:54:33 localhost kernel: 1 lock held by bash/2679:
Nov 10 14:54:33 localhost kernel: #0:  (&tty->atomic_read_lock){+.+...}, at: [<c060f4a5>] n_tty_read+0x1d2/0x5ee
Nov 10 14:54:33 localhost kernel: 3 locks held by kworker/0:3/5698:
Nov 10 14:54:33 localhost kernel: #0:  (events){+.+.+.}, at: [<c0446ded>] process_one_work+0x13e/0x2bf
Nov 10 14:54:33 localhost kernel: #1:  (wireless_nlevent_work){+.+.+.}, at: [<c0446ded>] process_one_work+0x13e/0x2bf
Nov 10 14:54:33 localhost kernel: #2:  (rtnl_mutex){+.+.+.}, at: [<c070220f>] rtnl_lock+0xf/0x11
Nov 10 14:54:33 localhost kernel: 1 lock held by ip/6438:
Nov 10 14:54:33 localhost kernel: #0:  (rtnl_mutex){+.+.+.}, at: [<c070f78c>] netlink_dump+0x3a/0x16a
Nov 10 14:54:33 localhost kernel: 1 lock held by ip/6441:
Nov 10 14:54:33 localhost kernel: #0:  (rtnl_mutex){+.+.+.}, at: [<c070220f>] rtnl_lock+0xf/0x11
Nov 10 14:54:33 localhost kernel: 1 lock held by ip/6442:
Nov 10 14:54:33 localhost kernel: #0:  (rtnl_mutex){+.+.+.}, at: [<c070220f>] rtnl_lock+0xf/0x11
Nov 10 14:54:33 localhost kernel: 1 lock held by iwconfig/6443:
Nov 10 14:54:33 localhost kernel: #0:  (rtnl_mutex){+.+.+.}, at: [<c070220f>] rtnl_lock+0xf/0x11
Nov 10 14:54:33 localhost kernel: 1 lock held by ip/6444:
Nov 10 14:54:33 localhost kernel: #0:  (rtnl_mutex){+.+.+.}, at: [<c070220f>] rtnl_lock+0xf/0x11
Nov 10 14:54:33 localhost kernel: 4 locks held by sh/6449:
Nov 10 14:54:33 localhost kernel: #0:  (&(&i->lock)->rlock){-.-...}, at: [<c0631760>] serial8250_interrupt+0x1e/0xe2
Nov 10 14:54:33 localhost kernel: #1:  (&port_lock_key){-.-...}, at: [<c06314e6>] serial8250_handle_port+0x10/0x26c
Nov 10 14:54:33 localhost kernel: #2:  (sysrq_key_table_lock){-.....}, at: [<c061e912>] __handle_sysrq+0x18/0x11d
Nov 10 14:54:33 localhost kernel: #3:  (tasklist_lock){.+.+..}, at: [<c0459d53>] debug_show_all_locks+0x43/0x179

-- 
Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Candela Technologies Inc  http://www.candelatech.com


             reply	other threads:[~2010-11-10 23:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-10 23:02 Ben Greear [this message]
2010-11-11  0:57 ` ath5k/mac80211: Reproducible deadlock with 64-stations Ben Greear
2010-11-11  1:03   ` Johannes Berg
2010-11-11  5:51     ` Ben Greear
2010-11-11  1:02 ` Johannes Berg
2010-11-11  9:27   ` Tejun Heo
2010-11-11 16:55     ` Ben Greear
2010-11-11 18:26       ` Ben Greear
2010-11-11 23:12         ` Ben Greear
2010-11-12 10:11           ` Tejun Heo
2010-11-12 10:15             ` Tejun Heo
2010-11-12 18:06               ` Ben Greear
2010-11-12 18:13                 ` Tejun Heo
2010-11-12 18:34                   ` Ben Greear
2010-11-12 17:18             ` Ben Greear
2010-11-12  0:48       ` Ben Greear
2010-11-12  2:37         ` Johannes Berg
2010-11-12 16:32           ` Ben Greear
2010-11-12 16:45             ` Johannes Berg
2010-11-12 17:37               ` Ben Greear

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