Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934101AbXEGOIO (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 May 2007 10:08:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S934086AbXEGOIJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 May 2007 10:08:09 -0400 Received: from caffeine.uwaterloo.ca ([129.97.134.17]:42343 "EHLO caffeine.csclub.uwaterloo.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S934087AbXEGOII (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 May 2007 10:08:08 -0400 Date: Mon, 7 May 2007 10:08:07 -0400 To: Don Fry Cc: Frederik Deweerdt , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Strange soft lockup detected message (looks like spin_lock bug in pcnet32) Message-ID: <20070507140807.GF8753@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> References: <20070503203143.GA8753@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> <20070504141024.GB8753@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> <20070504143326.GD24769@slug> <20070504151934.GA8754@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> <20070504153438.GE24769@slug> <20070504154009.GE8751@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> <20070504174456.GC8753@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> <20070504175017.GD8753@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> <20070504182433.GA11595@verizon.net> <20070504190236.GE8753@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070504190236.GE8753@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) From: lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 780 Lines: 18 On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 03:02:36PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > Well I don't know, but something is going wrong and causing the soft > lock up. I must admit I am surprised if an interrupt can occour while > handling an interrupt, but then again maybe that is supposed to be > allowed. I tried building a kernel where the only change was enabling the spin lock debugging. It doesn't fail, while without spin lock debugging it seemed to fail very frequently. Darn! I hate when debugging makes hides the problem. -- Len Sorensen - 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/