[OpenWrt-Devel] Hardlock in ath9k

[Felix Fietkau]

On 2015-01-15 12:48, Gianluca Anzolin wrote:
> Il 15/01/2015 04:25, Felix Fietkau ha scritto:
>> On 2015-01-14 20:19, Gianluca Anzolin wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I was just testing this evening, just for fun, a new build with the just
>>> released musl libc (1.1.6) on my new router (Archer C7) but
>>> unfortunately it bricked my router.
>>>
>>> Initially I feared that I did something wrong when updating the libc but
>>> this turned out not to be the case.
>>>
>>> With the help of a serial cable I noticed that the router freezed when
>>> trying to bring up the wireless interface (in the NG band).
>>>
>>> I skimmed through the commits and reverted the last ath9k commit:
>>>
>>> git-svn-id: svn://svn.openwrt.org/openwrt/trunk@43971
>>> 3c298f89-4303-0410-b956-a3cf2f4a3e73
>>>
>>> I rebuilt the image and the router worked.
>>>
>>> I haven't had the time to look at the actual commit yet, I just wanted
>>> to let you know.
>> Please try applying http://nbd.name/ath79-irq-disable.patch to your
>> kernel tree and see if it fixes the issue.
>>
>> - Felix
> I still get freezes when bringing up the wifi interface even with that 
> patch applied
I just finished debugging this and I'm going to commit fixes very soon.
Turns out it was a rather nasty cascade of bugs.

My patch would have fixed the bug of being unable to disable the
WMAC/PCI interrupts, however disable_irq() on MIPS CPU irqs is
completely broken as well (and has been for many years).
This led to some nasty IRQ storms.

- Felix
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