[Bug 260907] if_iwm: i7260 dropping connections silently, module load results in ping > 5000 ms
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Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2022 13:42:08 UTC
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=260907 Bug ID: 260907 Summary: if_iwm: i7260 dropping connections silently, module load results in ping > 5000 ms Product: Base System Version: 13.0-STABLE Hardware: Any OS: Any Status: New Severity: Affects Many People Priority: --- Component: wireless Assignee: wireless@FreeBSD.org Reporter: ohartmann@walstatt.org The base is a Lenovo E450 notebook running recent 13/STABLE: FreeBSD 13.0-STABLE #54 stable/13-n248811-2572b6bd6bf: Sun Jan 2 22:46:43 CET 2022 amd64 [...] CPU microcode: updated from 0x25 to 0x28 CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4200M CPU @ 2.50GHz (2494.37-MHz K8-class CPU) Origin="GenuineIntel" Id=0x306c3 Family=0x6 Model=0x3c Stepping=3 Features=0xbfebfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE> Features2=0x7fdafbbf<SSE3,PCLMULQDQ,DTES64,MON,DS_CPL,VMX,EST,TM2,SSSE3,SDBG,FMA,CX16,xTPR,PDCM,PCID,SSE4.1,SSE4.2,MOVBE,POPCNT,TSCDLT,AESNI,XSAVE,OSXSAVE,AVX,F16C,RDRAND> AMD Features=0x2c100800<SYSCALL,NX,Page1GB,RDTSCP,LM> AMD Features2=0x21<LAHF,ABM> Structured Extended Features=0x27ab<FSGSBASE,TSCADJ,BMI1,AVX2,SMEP,BMI2,ERMS,INVPCID,NFPUSG> Structured Extended Features3=0x9c000600<MCUOPT,MD_CLEAR,IBPB,STIBP,L1DFL,SSBD> XSAVE Features=0x1<XSAVEOPT> VT-x: PAT,HLT,MTF,PAUSE,EPT,UG,VPID TSC: P-state invariant, performance statistics real memory = 17179869184 (16384 MB) avail memory = 16502960128 (15738 MB) Event timer "LAPIC" quality 600 ACPI APIC Table: <LENOVO TP-J9 > FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 4 CPUs FreeBSD/SMP: 1 package(s) x 2 core(s) x 2 hardware threads random: registering fast source Intel Secure Key RNG random: fast provider: "Intel Secure Key RNG" random: unblocking device. Security policy loaded: MAC/ntpd (mac_ntpd) Security policy loaded: TrustedBSD MAC/BSD Extended (mac_bsdextended) ioapic0 <Version 2.0> irqs 0-23 Launching APs: 1 3 2 random: entropy device external interface kbd1 at kbdmux0 efirtc0: <EFI Realtime Clock> efirtc0: registered as a time-of-day clock, resolution 1.000000s aesni0: <AES-CBC,AES-CCM,AES-GCM,AES-ICM,AES-XTS> acpi0: <LENOVO TP-J9> acpi_ec0: <Embedded Controller: GPE 0x17, ECDT> port 0x62,0x66 on acpi0 acpi0: Power Button (fixed) [...] The WiFi NIC is a Intel i7260: iwm0@pci0:5:0:0: class=0x028000 rev=0x73 hdr=0x00 vendor=0x8086 device=0x08b2 subvendor=0x8086 subdevice=0x4262 vendor = 'Intel Corporation' device = 'Wireless 7260' class = network bar [10] = type Memory, range 64, base 0xf1c00000, size 8192, enabled cap 01[c8] = powerspec 3 supports D0 D3 current D0 cap 05[d0] = MSI supports 1 message, 64 bit enabled with 1 message cap 10[40] = PCI-Express 2 endpoint max data 128(128) FLR RO NS max read 128 link x1(x1) speed 2.5(2.5) ASPM L1(L0s/L1) ClockPM enabled ecap 0001[100] = AER 1 0 fatal 0 non-fatal 0 corrected ecap 0003[140] = Serial 1 .... ecap 0018[14c] = LTR 1 ecap 000b[154] = Vendor [1] ID cafe Rev 1 Length 20 First observation: With different networks and access points, the WiFi NIC results very often in loosing network connection, it is more a freezing, since ifconfig reports still IP and wpa_cli shows still some association to the AP, but there is no packet flow anymore. I reported in this issue recently on freebsd-wireless and got the advice to wait for the if_iwlwifi driver. Since this driver seems to be quite far from ready to be used and with the above mentioned OS version unusable (no FW is loaded), I'll report this issue in. I have no clue why and how the connection of the i7260 WiFi NIC gets broken, but it seems to be somehow related to the number of networks on the 2,4 GHz band, but this observation is not accurate. Second observation: Since a couple of years for now I compile the if_iwm driver statically as well as the (supposedly correct) firmware via device iwm device iwmfw into the kernel. This procedure results in the above observed dropouts. With the upcoming if_iwlwifi at hand I started loading (exclusive) either iwm or iwlwifi via /boot/loader.conf.local into the kernel. Loading the if_iwm driver this way results in a unusable state: very often and reproducable a ping reaches latencies larger than 5000 - 6000 ms, with the result of a corruption of the connections made and rapidly with the finale state as observed and reported above - the frozen state. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.