Re: Strange soft lockup detected message (looks like spin_lock bug in pcnet32)

From: Lennart Sorensen
Date: Mon May 07 2007 - 10:08:26 EST


On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 03:02:36PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> Well I don't know, but something is going wrong and causing the soft
> lock up. I must admit I am surprised if an interrupt can occour while
> handling an interrupt, but then again maybe that is supposed to be
> allowed.

I tried building a kernel where the only change was enabling the spin
lock debugging. It doesn't fail, while without spin lock debugging it
seemed to fail very frequently. Darn! I hate when debugging makes hides
the problem.

--
Len Sorensen
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