Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 4 Oct 2000 18:25:25 +0200 (SAST) | From | Hans Grobler <> | Subject | Re: Request for net guru help: waitqueue oops |
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On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, Petko Manolov wrote: > > The timer routines (there are 4) are used to switch hardware states and > > must therefore be mutually exclusive with respect to the interrupt handler. > > There are no bottom halves used in this driver. Andrew Morton suggested > > that the problem could be in my use of the skb pointers, which seems > > a likely candidate. I'll check that. > > It might be, but it might not. Be careful about locking and calling > procedures which can sleep from interrupt context. > > Sorry if i am not enough specific, i haven't seen the code ;-)
I have found another driver in the standard kernel that also causes this oops and have posted to linux-net (as this appears to be networking related).
Thanks -- Hans.
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