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SubjectRe: [BUG] wireless : cpu stuck for 61s
On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 9:51 AM, Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 8:24 PM, Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 09:29:26AM +0800, Dave Young wrote:
>>> With the patch I cann't reproduce the bug with 27-rc1 now.
>>>
>>> > [<c02375a6>] ? debugfs_create_file+0x46/0x210
>>> > [<c02375a6>] ? debugfs_create_file+0x46/0x210
>>> > [<c02375a6>] debugfs_create_file+0x46/0x210
>>> > [<c02377f1>] debugfs_create_dir+0x21/0x30
>>> > [<f8901f6d>] ieee80211_sta_debugfs_add+0x2d/0x150 [mac80211]
>>> > [<f88eba89>] sta_info_debugfs_add_work+0x89/0x130 [mac80211]
>>> > [<f890a170>] ? rate_control_pid_add_sta_debugfs+0x0/0x30 [mac80211]
>>
>> I wonder if there were two separate problems here. I looked into
>> this with some detail yesterday and agree with Johannes that the above
>> trace is on locking the parent directory's i_mutex, but I too couldn't
>> see any problems with sta_info_debugfs_add_work. Other stuff could also
>> modify the directory with or without rtnl_lock, but not in a way that
>> to my untrained eyes would lead to deadlock.
>
> Yes,. I think so. It's the original bug for me, while testing I found
> the mutex deadlock problem.
>
> But this week I will have no time to trace it. so if I have time I
> will keep tracing the problem

Additional info,

With the mutex fix patch, in 2.6.27-rc1 I seems can not reproduce the
debugfs_add bug, (maybe need more test)

But with 2.6.26, the bug can be reproduced. (The mutex fix patch need
not to be applied because there's no such deadlock bug)

>
>>
>> Or is the trace just wrong?
>>
>> --
>> Bob Copeland %% www.bobcopeland.com
>>
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Regards
> dave
>



--
Regards
dave


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