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
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.