Return-path: Received: from mail.candelatech.com ([208.74.158.172]:49399 "EHLO ns3.lanforge.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757076Ab3FFDlc (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Jun 2013 23:41:32 -0400 Message-ID: <51B004CD.6080007@candelatech.com> (sfid-20130606_054136_260906_6E8F9A5F) Date: Wed, 05 Jun 2013 20:41:01 -0700 From: Ben Greear MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Eric Dumazet CC: Tejun Heo , Rusty Russell , Joe Lawrence , Linux Kernel Mailing List , stable@vger.kernel.org, "Luis R. Rodriguez" , Jouni Malinen , Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan , Senthil Balasubramanian , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, ath9k-devel@venema.h4ckr.net, Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar Subject: Re: stop_machine lockup issue in 3.9.y. References: <51AE27D5.7050202@candelatech.com> <87sj0xry1k.fsf@rustcorp.com.au> <20130605071539.GA3429@mtj.dyndns.org> <51AF6E54.3050108@candelatech.com> <20130605184807.GD10693@mtj.dyndns.org> <51AF8D4B.4090407@candelatech.com> <51AF91F5.6090801@candelatech.com> <51AFA677.9010605@candelatech.com> <20130605211157.GK10693@mtj.dyndns.org> <1370482492.24311.308.camel@edumazet-glaptop> <20130606031444.GA12335@mtj.dyndns.org> <1370489181.24311.318.camel@edumazet-glaptop> In-Reply-To: <1370489181.24311.318.camel@edumazet-glaptop> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 06/05/2013 08:26 PM, Eric Dumazet wrote: > On Wed, 2013-06-05 at 20:14 -0700, Tejun Heo wrote: > >> >> Ah, so, that's why it's showing up now. We probably have had the same >> issue all along but it used to be masked by the softirq limiting. Do >> you care to revive the 10 iterations limit so that it's limited by >> both the count and timing? We do wanna find out why softirq is >> spinning indefinitely tho. > > Yes, no problem, I can do that. Limiting it to 5000 fixes my problem, so if you wanted it larger than 10, that would be fine by me. I can send a version of my patch easily enough if we can agree on the max number of loops (and if indeed my version of the patch is acceptable). Thanks, Ben -- Ben Greear Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com