Vivek Khera wrote:
On Mar 17, 2008, at 4:05 PM, Sascha Klauder wrote:
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.
I've had the exact same kind of issue with the vpn1401 PCI card in a
Dell box for my firewall running pfSense (at the tie it was based on
FreeBSD 6.1 I believe). It would lock up the firewall within 2 hours to
4 days of uptime. Once we removed the card, no lockups. Soekris never
responded to my questions about such behavior.
In contrast, their mini-PCI cards I have installed on some WRAP boards
never lockup using the same software.
I blame the card.
Hifn contributed driver changes that purportedly corrected some issues
that might be related. Unfortunately I've had no time to integrate them
(it was provided as a single (huge) patch w/o any explanation). I
called several times for someone to take it over but noone's stepped up.
If you want to work through it contact me offline.
Sam
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