From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756185Ab1KWDZo (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Nov 2011 22:25:44 -0500 Received: from mga09.intel.com ([134.134.136.24]:48038 "EHLO mga09.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755260Ab1KWDZn (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Nov 2011 22:25:43 -0500 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.67,351,1309762800"; d="scan'208";a="79073428" Subject: Re: 3.1+ iwlwifi lockup From: "Guy, Wey-Yi" To: Dave Jones Cc: Linux Kernel , "ilw@linux.intel.com" , "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" In-Reply-To: <20111123024545.GA9703@redhat.com> References: <20111031143408.GA17152@redhat.com> <1321992902.8072.7.camel@wwguy-ubuntu> <20111123024545.GA9703@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 18:29:40 -0800 Message-ID: <1322015380.11647.82.camel@wwguy-huron> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.28.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Dave, On Tue, 2011-11-22 at 18:45 -0800, Dave Jones wrote: > On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 12:15:02PM -0800, wwguy wrote: > > Hi Dave, > > > > Sorry for taking so long. > > it is a bogus command from the firmware which driver try to process it > > and cause problem. I am not sure how it happen. But could you please try > > the patch I attach here. > > > > For now I am just ignore the command, but not sure it is good enough, > > might has to reload the firmware, but not sure. > > With Linus' current tree and this patch, I got a panic pretty quickly, > but with a different trace. > Are you seeing the problem without this patch? I guess the patch I done here is not the right thing to do and I try to address the problem too aggressively Thanks Wey.