On Thursday 05 October 2006 13:37, Jiri Benc wrote:
> On Wed, 4 Oct 2006 19:22:38 +0200, Ivo van Doorn wrote:
> > Well another point of concern for me is the TSF handling, those handlers 
> > are called
> > from interrupt context as well, and also deliver problems for the USB 
> > drivers in case
> > of adhoc mode.
> 
> Where is a problem with tsf handlers? get_tsf is not called at all
> (unless CONFIG_D80211_IBSS_DEBUG is set; well, that raises a question
> why the function exists in the first place), reset_tsf returns void.

Basically it comes down to this:

Sep 13 12:27:34 wz4a kernel: wlan0: Creating new IBSS network, BSSID 
7a:b9:60:8a:84:39
Sep 13 12:27:34 wz4a kernel: BUG: scheduling while atomic: swapper/0x00000100/0
Sep 13 12:27:34 wz4a kernel:  <b02701e7> schedule+0x43/0xa84  <b01ef8b8> 
extract_buf+0x97/0xc8
Sep 13 12:27:34 wz4a kernel:  <b0270ca8> wait_for_completion+0x6a/0x9f  
<b0116f2d> default_wake_function+0x0/0xc
Sep 13 12:27:34 wz4a kernel:  <c08ac59f> usb_start_wait_urb+0x98/0xdc [usbcore] 
 <c08ac418> timeout_kill+0x0/0x5 [usbcore]
Sep 13 12:27:34 wz4a kernel:  <c08ac7d5> usb_control_msg+0xc3/0xde [usbcore]  
<c0b6c0f1> rt2x00_vendor_request+0x7c/0xa6 [rt73usb]
Sep 13 12:27:34 wz4a kernel:  <c0b6fa68> rt73usb_reset_tsf+0x30/0x59 [rt73usb]  
<c0bdb3e8> ieee80211_sta_join_ibss+0x3a/0x572 [80211]
Sep 13 12:27:34 wz4a kernel:  <b011cea9> printk+0x14/0x18  <c0bdaa4a> 
ieee80211_rx_bss_add+0x88/0x90 [80211]
Sep 13 12:27:34 wz4a kernel:  <c0bdbc2e> ieee80211_sta_find_ibss+0x30e/0x366 
[80211]  <c0bdda17> ieee80211_sta_timer+0x0/0x18f [80211]
Sep 13 12:27:34 wz4a kernel:  <c0bdda91> ieee80211_sta_timer+0x7a/0x18f [80211] 
 <c0bdda17> ieee80211_sta_timer+0x0/0x18f [80211]
Sep 13 12:27:34 wz4a kernel:  <b01241b1> run_timer_softirq+0x10b/0x153  
<b0120a52> __do_softirq+0x58/0xc2
Sep 13 12:27:34 wz4a kernel:  <b0120aea> do_softirq+0x2e/0x32  <b0104fe6> 
do_IRQ+0x1e/0x24
Sep 13 12:27:34 wz4a kernel:  <b0103592> common_interrupt+0x1a/0x20  <c0827484> 
acpi_processor_idle+0x18a/0x39e [processor]
Sep 13 12:27:34 wz4a kernel:  <b0101e77> cpu_idle+0x8f/0xa8  <b03026d2> 
start_kernel+0x355/0x35c

With the compilation of d80211 the CONFIG_D80211_DEBUG is set by default,
so no CONFIG_D80211_IBSS_DEBUG.

This does not happen in rt2500usb driver, since no TSF handling is possible
due to a lack of TSF registers in the device.

Ivo
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