Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 29 Mar 2009 09:15:24 -0400 | Subject | Re: soft lockup apparently in ath5k_hw_update_mib_counters (or ioread32?) with 2.6.29 | From | Bob Copeland <> |
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On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 5:37 AM, Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru> wrote: > Paul Collins wrote: >> >> Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> writes: >> >>> On 03/29/2009 08:20 AM, Paul Collins wrote: >>>> >>>> After about two days of uptime with 2.6.29 I got this: >>>> >>>> BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 61s! [swapper:0] >>> Huh. I see no reason for this to happen. I suppose this is a regression, >>> which kernel worked? >> >> I had a previous instance of the problem with v2.6.29-rc8 after about >> six days of uptime. The kernel before that was 2.6.29-rc7ish, ran OK >> for a couple of days. But since I don't know how to reproduce it >> reliably it's hard to say which kernel is truly good.
I think it's just an interrupt storm because we don't reset MIB interrupts properly (I think not all devices are read-and-clear). I already have a patch in wireless-testing to turn off MIB interrupts until ANI is working and I CCed stable on it.
http://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=123725924404147&w=2
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