From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 17 20:20:48 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3DA1106567D for ; Mon, 17 Mar 2008 20:20:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sascha@trimind.de) Received: from caillean.shopkeeper.de (caillean.shopkeeper.de [82.119.175.19]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D6128FC2D for ; Mon, 17 Mar 2008 20:20:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sascha@trimind.de) Received: from avalon.dobu.local (p54B87188.dip.t-dialin.net [84.184.113.136]) (authenticated bits=0) by caillean.shopkeeper.de (8.13.8/8.13.4) with ESMTP id m2HK5bS0083173 for ; Mon, 17 Mar 2008 21:05:40 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from sascha@trimind.de) Received: from avalon.dobu.local (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by avalon.dobu.local (8.14.2/8.12.11) with ESMTP id m2HK5XkU001121 for ; Mon, 17 Mar 2008 21:05:33 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from sascha@avalon.dobu.local) Received: (from sascha@localhost) by avalon.dobu.local (8.14.2/8.14.2/Submit) id m2HK5XmM001120 for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Mon, 17 Mar 2008 21:05:33 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from sascha) Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 21:05:33 +0100 From: Sascha Klauder To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20080317200532.GA942@trimind.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.92.1/6261/Sun Mar 16 17:03:51 2008 on caillean.shopkeeper.de X-Virus-Status: Clean Subject: hifn(4) causing system lockup X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 20:20:48 -0000 Hi all, can someone comment on the state of the hifn(4) driver? I've recently upgraded my 6.2-STABLE workstation to RELENG_7, and I'm now experiencing system lockups that seem to be caused by the hifn(4) driver. I've got a Soekris vpn1401 card to help with GELI disk en- cryption. Reading from a GELI volume is causing the system to freeze completely, which does not happen if software crypto is used (i.e. hifn.ko not loaded). I can't enter kernel debugger (ctrl+alt+esc doesn't work anymore) and my (remote) kgdb-fu isn't up to par anyway. PR kern/92716, which is quite old already, describes somewhat similar symptoms. I had no such problems on the previous 6.2 install (dated from July 2007), and have verified that 6.3 shows the lockup behaviour as well. dmesg output available here: http://evenstar.shopkeeper.de/~sascha/avalon.dmesg7 Cheers, -sascha