Re: Linux 2.6.24-rc7

From: Michael Buesch
Date: Mon Jan 07 2008 - 11:25:40 EST


On Monday 07 January 2008 17:14:15 Alejandro Riveira FernÃndez wrote:
> El Sun, 6 Jan 2008 14:19:16 -0800 (PST)
> Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> escribiÃ:
>
> >
> > It's been two weeks since rc6, but let's face it, with xmas and new years
> > (and birthdays) in between, there hasn't actually been a lot of working
> > days, and the incremental patch from -rc6 is about half the size of the
> > one from rc5->rc6.
> >
> > And I'll be charitable and claim it's because it's all stabilizing, and
> > not because we've all been in a drunken stupor over the holidays.
> >
> > The shortlog (appended below) is short and fairly informative. It's all
> > really just a lot of rather small changes. The diffstat shows a lot of
> > one- and two-liners, with just a few drivers (and the Cell platform)
> > getting a bit more attention, and the SLUB support of /proc/slabinfo
> > showing up as a blip.
> >
> > Both git trees and tar-balls/patches pushed out, should be mirroring out
> > within minutes. So there are no excuses to not try it out, and see if your
> > favorite regression has been fixed.
> >
> > Linus
> >
> Booted with it and I see
>
> [ 37.043998]
> [ 37.043999] Call Trace:
> [ 37.044001] <IRQ> [<ffffffff80227fe3>] enqueue_task+0x13/0x30
> [ 37.044040] [<ffffffff88178cbe>] :mac80211:__ieee80211_rx+0xc7e/0xd30
> [ 37.044044] [<ffffffff80228062>] activate_task+0x32/0x50
> [ 37.044073] [<ffffffff8816a28b>] :mac80211:ieee80211_tasklet_handler+0xbb/0x120
> [ 37.044086] [<ffffffff80238d08>] tasklet_action+0x48/0xb0
> [ 37.044091] [<ffffffff80238c09>] __do_softirq+0x69/0xe0
> [ 37.044097] [<ffffffff8020ce2c>] call_softirq+0x1c/0x30
> [ 37.044101] [<ffffffff8020efe5>] do_softirq+0x35/0x90
> [ 37.044105] [<ffffffff80238aa5>] irq_exit+0x95/0xa0
> [ 37.044108] [<ffffffff8020f0c0>] do_IRQ+0x80/0x100
> [ 37.044111] [<ffffffff8020a840>] default_idle+0x0/0x40
> [ 37.044115] [<ffffffff8020c181>] ret_from_intr+0x0/0xa
> [ 37.044117] <EOI> [<ffffffff8020a869>] default_idle+0x29/0x40
> [ 37.044130] [<ffffffff8020a8f5>] cpu_idle+0x75/0xc0
> [ 37.044146]

Can you post the lines above this?
This might be a WARN_ON_ONCE() triggering, for which fixes are on their way into
the wireless-2.6 tree.

--
Greetings Michael.
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