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Message-ID: <469E2AAB.2010408@redhat.com> Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 10:58:51 -0400 From: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@...hat.com> To: Peter Osterlund <petero2@...ia.com> CC: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Bcm43xx-dev@...ts.berlios.de, "John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>, Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: Occational lockups during boot with post 2.6.22 kernels On 07/17/2007 08:20 PM, Peter Osterlund wrote: > Current -git kernels sometimes lock up on my computer during boot. I > guess it happens about 10-20% of the time. I first saw this maybe a > week ago, but never with kernels <= 2.6.22. > > The last reported info on the console is that named is started. > SysRq-T still works and reports the non-sleeping tasks below. > > My guess is that wpa_supplicant and events/0 deadlock and later the > named thread also hangs when it needs a deadlocked resource. > > I'm using the bcm43xx driver. > > No lockdep errors are reported before the lockup. Earlier during boot > the kernel reports: > > Good, all 218 testcases passed! | Try this, it should at least detect the problem: http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/17/202 http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/17/204 http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/17/203 It's a known bug in wireless/80211, not sure when it will be fixed. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.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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