[OpenWrt-Devel] Hardlock in ath9k

[Gianluca Anzolin]

Il 15/01/2015 12:55, Felix Fietkau ha scritto:
> 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
I've just tested r43975 and it works.

Thank you

Gianluca
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