Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 7 May 1999 10:59:41 -0400 (EDT) | From | "Ben 'The Con Man' Kahn" <> | Subject | Re: Linux can't stay up for more than an hour? |
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WE GOT SOME OUTPUT! I just got this message from our sys admin:
In any case, I happened to be on it last night when it fell over, and the console messages indicated a kernel dereference of a NULL pointer within an interrupt handler. I'm guessing it's our race condition.
He now fully believes that it isn't a problem with NFS. (Odd... That was our first guess, and I thought it was pretty good, too.) It looks like it's a race condition, and we suspect it's in the 3c59x driver. (Seeing as Andrea Arcangeli found a race condition in the 3c509 driver...) Of course, it *could* be something worse...
On Thu, 6 May 1999, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> Date: Thu, 6 May 1999 17:27:21 +0200 (CEST) > From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@e-mind.com> > To: Mike Galbraith <mikeg@weiden.de> > Cc: Ben 'The Con Man' Kahn <xkahn@cybersites.com> > Subject: Re: Linux can't stay up for more than an hour? > > On Thu, 6 May 1999, Mike Galbraith wrote: > > >The newer snapshots don't recognize stdcall as an attribute any more > >so the whole thing dies. > > ah, ugly. I should rewrite the asm of __switch_to without using stdcall... > > >Removing the attribute builds but it reboots instantly; seemingly upon > >first encounter with __switch_to(). > > Yes yes, it can't work without stdcall... > > Andrea Arcangeli > >
-Ben
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