Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754726AbZF1JMF (ORCPT ); Sun, 28 Jun 2009 05:12:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751973AbZF1JLx (ORCPT ); Sun, 28 Jun 2009 05:11:53 -0400 Received: from mail-gx0-f226.google.com ([209.85.217.226]:48794 "EHLO mail-gx0-f226.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751673AbZF1JLw convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sun, 28 Jun 2009 05:11:52 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=FlluCAA15fBCA+IhdZk3jv/A1yxhpTBHBcLhuCaRpH2wshF5Yz+ZM9XQTk8lTMtGHL niCl1I9vOryEnVkVDZm/cPoLCaDCj02KcwOWi/k0pTRjFiNlhO1svOfAZGt+SJVNTxgl GPdsrneYtGdfKD/oPYYLzGHO90cxCnbKPJ5v0= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20090618223238.4d6b6707@infradead.org> References: <20090614173331.18f01123@infradead.org> <20090618223238.4d6b6707@infradead.org> Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2009 05:11:54 -0400 X-Google-Sender-Auth: d03fd49edc5361b7 Message-ID: Subject: Re: kerneloops.org report for the week of June 14 2009 From: Bob Copeland To: Arjan van de Ven Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, tglx@tglx.de, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, rjw@sisk.pl, netdev@vger.kernel.org, mingo@elte.hu, dwmw2@infradead.org, alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1155 Lines: 27 On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 1:32 AM, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Thu, 18 Jun 2009 13:08:39 -0400 > Bob Copeland wrote: >> > Rank 9: minstrel_get_rate (warning) >> >> I believe this is fixed by http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/6/5/269, now >> in pre-2.6.31. ?Hmm, odd though, we should be seeing reports from >> other wireless drivers since it's a general memory corruption >> unrelated to ath5k (but not all use the mac80211 rate controllers). > > well.. out of the 534 reports or so that I have by now... 525 have > ath5k loaded..... > > it's not 100% but it'd pretty close. Indeed, I can replicate this now, looks like some kind of race condition since it's looking for a rate in the 5 ghz band while I'm communicating with a 2 ghz AP (during a scan perhaps?). The warning is harmless but there is some underlying issue to be fixed. -- Bob Copeland %% www.bobcopeland.com -- 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/