b43 error under heavy load

[Rafał Miłecki]

2011/6/1 Chris Vine <chris at cvine.freeserve.co.uk>:
> On Wed, 1 Jun 2011 11:23:45 +0200
> Rafał Miłecki <zajec5 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> W dniu 1 czerwca 2011 01:29 użytkownik Chris Vine
>> <chris at cvine.freeserve.co.uk> napisał:
>> > However, fixing this bug reveals something else.  After about 2
>> > hours of streaming on MLB.TV I got this, apparently at random (but
>> > this is not a hard error: by disassociating from the AP and
>> > reassociating, the rest of the game played fine, and there was no
>> > need to load or unload modules):
>> >
>> > b43-phy0 debug: TX-status contains invalid cookie: 0x0DCE
>> > b43-phy0 debug: Out of order TX status report on DMA ring 1.
>> > Expected 74, but got 76
>>
>> Chris, my first suspicion for this issue is filling the whole TX
>> buffer. This could explain what does it happen on high traffic.
>>
>> Below there is an idea how we can easily test it. Can you take a look
>> at this, and perform some testing?
>>
>>
>> 2011/5/10 Rafał Miłecki <zajec5 at gmail.com>:
>> > It seems to happen only under heavy load... maybe it has something
>> > to do with reaching end of the ring (not whole ring, just end of
>> > free slots)?
>> >
>> > Did you try verbose debugging? I wonder if there is any relation
>> > between Out of order and:
>> > if (b43_debug(dev, B43_DBG_DMAVERBOSE)) {
>> >        b43dbg(dev->wl, "Stopped TX ring %d\n", ring->index);
>> > }
>> >
>> > Could you try it?
>>
>> AFAIK to enable this debugging you only need to:
>> echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/b43/phy0/debug_dmaverbose
>
> I don't have a /sys/kernel/debug directory with a running 3.0.0-rc1
> kernel, so it appears that b43 debugging (which I do have enabled)
> doesn't use it.

mount -t debugfs none /sys/kernel/debug/


> On the question of whether it is a firmware problem, I have not
> experienced a similar issue with the wl driver, but the firmware that
> b43 uses from broadcom-wl-4.178.10.4 seems to be an earlier version, so
> that does not rule out the firmware: the earliest hybrid-portsrc wl
> driver I have used is v5.10.91.9.3.

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Rafał