From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mail.candelatech.com ([208.74.158.172]:47221 "EHLO ns3.lanforge.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752448Ab1BCPKO (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Feb 2011 10:10:14 -0500 Message-ID: <4D4AC550.5050204@candelatech.com> Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2011 07:10:08 -0800 From: Ben Greear MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Johannes Berg CC: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Crash in timer.c References: <4D49DABE.7040802@candelatech.com> <1296721004.3854.0.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> In-Reply-To: <1296721004.3854.0.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 02/03/2011 12:16 AM, Johannes Berg wrote: > On Wed, 2011-02-02 at 14:29 -0800, Ben Greear wrote: >> I had 128 STA vifs on an ath9k system...started deleting all but 16 of them. >> I did this twice, and both times, it crashes before finishing deleting >> all of them. >> >> This is using latest wireless-testing plus some of my patches >> previously posted to this list. > > Timers should have debug objects support -- that would be helpful. Yeah, I was hitting a similar crash before..though I had more debugging enabled then. Someone posted ath9k patches that they thought would fix it..but not sure they did. I also don't remember seeing this while I had copybreak in my tree (I recently removed it to make way for the paged skb code...) That could just be a coincidence though.... Thanks, Ben > > johannes -- Ben Greear Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com