Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030322AbVIBIhE (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Sep 2005 04:37:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751144AbVIBIhE (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Sep 2005 04:37:04 -0400 Received: from anf141.internetdsl.tpnet.pl ([83.17.87.141]:32943 "EHLO ogre.sisk.pl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751129AbVIBIhC (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Sep 2005 04:37:02 -0400 From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" To: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: 2.6.13-mm1: PCMCIA problem Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2005 10:37:16 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20050901035542.1c621af6.akpm@osdl.org> <20050901142813.47b349ed.akpm@osdl.org> <200509021030.06874.rjw@sisk.pl> In-Reply-To: <200509021030.06874.rjw@sisk.pl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200509021037.16536.rjw@sisk.pl> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2881 Lines: 65 On Friday, 2 of September 2005 10:30, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > 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 ]--snip--[ One more piece of information. This is the one that loops: echo 30 > /sys/class/firmware/timeout and the related profile is: 16 *unknown* ffffffff8010eb38 sysret_check 1 0.0120 ffffffff80240b40 clear_page 1 0.0175 ffffffff80356397 bad_gs 1 0.0001 ffffffff80240cc0 copy_user_generic 2 0.0067 ffffffff8010eb33 ret_from_sys_call 6 1.2000 ffffffff80221870 dummy_file_permission 7 0.4375 ffffffff80240c90 copy_from_user 9 0.1875 ffffffff8023f5e0 simple_strtol 11 0.2292 ffffffff8023f500 simple_strtoul 17 0.0759 ffffffff802ac800 class_attr_store 18 0.3750 ffffffff801bfc40 sysfs_write_file 61 0.1658 ffffffff8017ead0 sys_write 78 0.5417 ffffffff8017df70 rw_verify_area 143 1.1172 ffffffff80240dea copy_user_generic_c 144 3.7895 ffffffff8010eab0 system_call 163 1.2443 ffffffff8017f1d0 fget_light 184 0.7667 ffffffff8017e890 vfs_write 209 0.5024 0000000000000000 total 1055 0.0004 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/