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

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Message-ID: <20070507144837.GA30865@slug>
Date:	Mon, 7 May 2007 16:48:37 +0200
From:	Frederik Deweerdt <deweerdt@...e.fr>
To:	Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@...lub.uwaterloo.ca>
Cc:	Don Fry <pcnet32@...izon.net>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Strange soft lockup detected message (looks like spin_lock bug in pcnet32)

On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 10:08:07AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> 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.
Can you try running on another Geode LX system, just to rule out a
hardware problem on you board?

Regards,
Frederik
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