netdev - Re: Strange soft lockup detected message (looks like spin

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Message-ID: <20070507140807.GF8753@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
Date:	Mon, 7 May 2007 10:08:07 -0400
From:	lsorense@...lub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen)
To:	Don Fry <pcnet32@...izon.net>
Cc:	Frederik Deweerdt <deweerdt@...e.fr>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Strange soft lockup detected message (looks like spin_lock bug in pcnet32)

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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