Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 20 Dec 2005 13:23:58 -0800 (PST) | Subject | Re: sungem hangs in atomic if netconsole enabled but no carrier | From | "David S. Miller" <> |
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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 08:18:40 +1100
> > > Turns out that if I remove the netconsole=... option to my kernel, all > > works fine and the system no longer hangs. Obviously not plugging in a > > network cable is pretty useless when netconsole is turned on, but I > > think it should not hang the system completely. So far I haven't been > > able to figure out where it actually hangs and don't even know how to do > > so -- I'm open for suggestions on how to find out why/where it hangs or > > even fixes. > > Hrm... I've heard various reports about problems with netconsole... I've > never tried it myself so far though. One thing I remember to beware of > is if sungem does a printk while holding its lock...
I bet that's it, doing a printk while already in the netconsole printk output path. - 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/
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