Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751120AbVIBI3v (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Sep 2005 04:29:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751123AbVIBI3v (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Sep 2005 04:29:51 -0400 Received: from anf141.internetdsl.tpnet.pl ([83.17.87.141]:30639 "EHLO ogre.sisk.pl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751120AbVIBI3u (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Sep 2005 04:29:50 -0400 From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" To: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: 2.6.13-mm1: PCMCIA problem Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2005 10:30:06 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20050901035542.1c621af6.akpm@osdl.org> <200509012314.48434.rjw@sisk.pl> <20050901142813.47b349ed.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20050901142813.47b349ed.akpm@osdl.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200509021030.06874.rjw@sisk.pl> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 3161 Lines: 68 On Thursday, 1 of September 2005 23:28, Andrew Morton wrote: > "Rafael J. Wysocki" wrote: > > > > On Thursday, 1 of September 2005 12:55, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.13/2.6.13-mm1/ > > > > I cannot start PCMCIA on x86-64 SuSE 9.3 on Asus L5D. Apparently, the following > > command: > > > > sh -c modprobe --ignore-install firmware_class; echo 30 > /sys/class/firmware/timeout > > > > loops forever with almost 100% of the time spent in the kernel. > > > > AFAICS, 2.6.13-rc6-mm2 is also affected, but the mainline kernels are not. > > OK. There are no notable firmware changes in there. While it's stuck > could you generate a kernel profile? I do: > > readprofile -r > sleep 5 > readprofile -n -v -m /boot/System.map | sort -n +2 | tail -40 OK I ran "rcpcmcia start" in one vt and the above in another. The result was: 20 *unknown* ffffffff802417f0 __memset 1 0.0052 ffffffff80242850 _raw_spin_lock 1 0.0031 ffffffff8026a44c acpi_ns_get_next_node 1 0.0118 ffffffff802ed040 sock_kfree_s 1 0.0156 ffffffff8010eb38 sysret_check 2 0.0241 ffffffff8010eb33 ret_from_sys_call 4 0.8000 ffffffff80240cc0 copy_user_generic 5 0.0168 ffffffff80221870 dummy_file_permission 7 0.4375 ffffffff8023f5e0 simple_strtol 14 0.2917 ffffffff80240c90 copy_from_user 15 0.3125 ffffffff802ac800 class_attr_store 17 0.3542 ffffffff8017df70 rw_verify_area 22 0.1719 ffffffff8023f500 simple_strtoul 24 0.1071 ffffffff8017ead0 sys_write 41 0.2847 ffffffff80240dea copy_user_generic_c 82 2.1579 ffffffff8017f1d0 fget_light 108 0.4500 ffffffff8010eab0 system_call 189 1.4427 ffffffff8017e890 vfs_write 220 0.5288 ffffffff801bfc40 sysfs_write_file 308 0.8370 0000000000000000 total 1062 0.0004 After I had stopped the (looping) "rcpcmcia start", I got: 1243 *unknown* ffffffff80240dea copy_user_generic_c 1 0.0263 ffffffff802417f0 __memset 1 0.0052 0000000000000000 total 2 0.0000 Greetings, Rafael -- - Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here? - That depends a good deal on where you want to get to. -- Lewis Carroll "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/