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From: Jeff Chua on 23 May 2010 01:00
Wireless IBSS on Linux-2.6.34 is broken. Reverting commit
3bbb9ec946428b96657126768f65487a48dd090c makes it work again. This was
tested by bisecting the kernel.

I'm using 6200 AGN ...

cfg80211: Calling CRDA to update world regulatory domain
iwlagn: Intel(R) Wireless WiFi Link AGN driver for Linux, in-tree:
iwlagn: Copyright(c) 2003-2010 Intel Corporation
iwlagn 0000:02:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
iwlagn 0000:02:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
iwlagn 0000:02:00.0: Detected Intel(R) Centrino(R) Advanced-N 6200 AGN, REV=0x74
iwlagn 0000:02:00.0: Tunable channels: 13 802.11bg, 24 802.11a channels
iwlagn 0000:02:00.0: irq 46 for MSI/MSI-X
iwlagn 0000:02:00.0: loaded firmware version 9.193.4.1 build 19710



So, where should the fix be?


Here's the commit ...

3bbb9ec946428b96657126768f65487a48dd090c is the first bad commit
commit 3bbb9ec946428b96657126768f65487a48dd090c
Author: Arjan van de Ven <arjan(a)linux.intel.com>
Date: Thu Mar 11 14:04:36 2010 -0800

timers: Introduce the concept of timer slack for legacy timers

While HR timers have had the concept of timer slack for quite some time
now, the legacy timers lacked this concept, and had to make do with
round_jiffies() and friends.

Timer slack is important for power management; grouping timers reduces the
number of wakeups which in turn reduces power consumption.

This patch introduces timer slack to the legacy timers using the following
pieces:
* A slack field in the timer struct
* An api (set_timer_slack) that callers can use to set explicit timer slack
* A default slack of 0.4% of the requested delay for callers that do not set
any explicit slack
* Rounding code that is part of mod_timer() that tries to
group timers around jiffies values every 'power of two'
(so quick timers will group around every 2, but longer timers
will group around every 4, 8, 16, 32 etc)

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan(a)linux.intel.com>
Cc: johnstul(a)us.ibm.com
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo(a)elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm(a)linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx(a)linutronix.de>




Thanks,
Jeff.
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From: Arjan van de Ven on 23 May 2010 02:30
On 5/22/2010 21:58, Jeff Chua wrote:
> Wireless IBSS on Linux-2.6.34 is broken. Reverting commit
> 3bbb9ec946428b96657126768f65487a48dd090c makes it work again. This was
> tested by bisecting the kernel.
>
> I'm using 6200 AGN ...
>
> cfg80211: Calling CRDA to update world regulatory domain
> iwlagn: Intel(R) Wireless WiFi Link AGN driver for Linux, in-tree:
> iwlagn: Copyright(c) 2003-2010 Intel Corporation
> iwlagn 0000:02:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
> iwlagn 0000:02:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
> iwlagn 0000:02:00.0: Detected Intel(R) Centrino(R) Advanced-N 6200 AGN, REV=0x74
> iwlagn 0000:02:00.0: Tunable channels: 13 802.11bg, 24 802.11a channels
> iwlagn 0000:02:00.0: irq 46 for MSI/MSI-X
> iwlagn 0000:02:00.0: loaded firmware version 9.193.4.1 build 19710

can you get us whole dmesg of two cases?
(just to know if there's something in surrounding messages of interest)
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