Re: bcm43xx regression 2.6.19rc3 - rc5, rtnl_lock trouble?

2006-11-19 Thread Michael Buesch
On Saturday 18 November 2006 20:02, Larry Finger wrote: Ray Lee wrote: Larry Finger wrote: Johannes Berg wrote: Hah, that's a lot more plausible than bcm43xx's drain patch actually causing this. So maybe somehow interrupts for bcm43xx aren't routed properly or something... Ray,

Re: bcm43xx regression 2.6.19rc3 - rc5, rtnl_lock trouble?

2006-11-18 Thread Joseph Fannin
On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 11:01:00AM -0800, Ray Lee wrote: I've come back to my laptop being mostly dead after hours of it being off on its own (twice now). Mostly dead meaning the keyboard is nearly non-responsive, but the mouse works great (I'm in X, of course). I say 'nearly dead' as

Re: bcm43xx regression 2.6.19rc3 - rc5, rtnl_lock trouble?

2006-11-18 Thread Johannes Berg
On Sat, 2006-11-18 at 06:24 -0500, Joseph Fannin wrote: This sounds like what my laptop was doing in -rc5, though mine didn't take hours to start acting up. I *think* it was the MSI troubles, causing interrupts to get lost forever. Anyway, it went away in -rc6. Hah, that's a lot

Re: bcm43xx regression 2.6.19rc3 - rc5, rtnl_lock trouble?

2006-11-18 Thread Larry Finger
Johannes Berg wrote: On Sat, 2006-11-18 at 06:24 -0500, Joseph Fannin wrote: This sounds like what my laptop was doing in -rc5, though mine didn't take hours to start acting up. I *think* it was the MSI troubles, causing interrupts to get lost forever. Anyway, it went away in -rc6.

Re: bcm43xx regression 2.6.19rc3 - rc5, rtnl_lock trouble?

2006-11-18 Thread Ray Lee
Larry Finger wrote: Johannes Berg wrote: Hah, that's a lot more plausible than bcm43xx's drain patch actually causing this. So maybe somehow interrupts for bcm43xx aren't routed properly or something... Ray, please check /proc/interrupts when this happens. When it happens, I can't. The

Re: bcm43xx regression 2.6.19rc3 - rc5, rtnl_lock trouble?

2006-11-18 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sat, Nov 18, 2006 at 09:27:13AM -0800, Ray Lee wrote: Larry Finger wrote: Johannes Berg wrote: Hah, that's a lot more plausible than bcm43xx's drain patch actually causing this. So maybe somehow interrupts for bcm43xx aren't routed properly or something... Ray, please check

Re: bcm43xx regression 2.6.19rc3 - rc5, rtnl_lock trouble?

2006-11-18 Thread Larry Finger
Ray Lee wrote: Larry Finger wrote: Johannes Berg wrote: Hah, that's a lot more plausible than bcm43xx's drain patch actually causing this. So maybe somehow interrupts for bcm43xx aren't routed properly or something... Ray, please check /proc/interrupts when this happens. When it happens, I

Re: bcm43xx regression 2.6.19rc3 - rc5, rtnl_lock trouble?

2006-11-16 Thread Larry Finger
Ray Lee wrote: Larry Finger wrote: Ray Lee wrote: Michael Buesch wrote: On Wednesday 15 November 2006 20:01, Ray Lee wrote: Suggestions? Requests for shudder even more info? Yeah, enable bcm43xx debugging. Sigh, didn't even think to look for that. Okay, enabled and compiling a new kernel.

Re: bcm43xx regression 2.6.19rc3 - rc5, rtnl_lock trouble?

2006-11-16 Thread Michael Buesch
On Thursday 16 November 2006 19:17, Larry Finger wrote: Ray Lee wrote: Larry Finger wrote: Ray Lee wrote: Michael Buesch wrote: On Wednesday 15 November 2006 20:01, Ray Lee wrote: Suggestions? Requests for shudder even more info? Yeah, enable bcm43xx debugging. Sigh, didn't even

Re: bcm43xx regression 2.6.19rc3 - rc5, rtnl_lock trouble?

2006-11-16 Thread Larry Finger
Ray Lee wrote: If I could figure out a way to make it repeatable, I'd happily do a blind bisect. As it stands, I can't trigger it manually. I've got a while true; do iwconfig eth1; done running to hit the ioctls (as the trace in my first message showed one of them in use), but that's might be a

Re: bcm43xx regression 2.6.19rc3 - rc5, rtnl_lock trouble?

2006-11-16 Thread Ray Lee
First off, thanks for all your help. Second off, On 11/16/06, Larry Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ray Lee wrote: If I could figure out a way to make it repeatable, I'd happily do a blind bisect. [...] I'm open to suggestions on how to make the problem trigger more than once every two

Re: bcm43xx regression 2.6.19rc3 - rc5, rtnl_lock trouble?

2006-11-16 Thread Larry Finger
Ray Lee wrote: First off, thanks for all your help. Second off, On 11/16/06, Larry Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ray Lee wrote: If I could figure out a way to make it repeatable, I'd happily do a blind bisect. [...] I'm open to suggestions on how to make the problem trigger more than

bcm43xx regression 2.6.19rc3 - rc5, rtnl_lock trouble?

2006-11-15 Thread Ray Lee
Hey all, I ran 2.6.19-rc3 for almost two weeks or so with no difficulties (none related to the bcm43xx driver, at least). However, Andrew asked me to double check the latest release to see if my problem report against 2.6.18 (hard locks) was fixed. Good news is that it still is fixed. Bad news is

Re: bcm43xx regression 2.6.19rc3 - rc5, rtnl_lock trouble?

2006-11-15 Thread Larry Finger
Ray Lee wrote: Michael Buesch wrote: On Wednesday 15 November 2006 20:01, Ray Lee wrote: Suggestions? Requests for shudder even more info? Yeah, enable bcm43xx debugging. Sigh, didn't even think to look for that. Okay, enabled and compiling a new kernel. This will take a few days to

Re: bcm43xx regression 2.6.19rc3 - rc5, rtnl_lock trouble?

2006-11-15 Thread Ray Lee
Larry Finger wrote: Ray Lee wrote: Michael Buesch wrote: On Wednesday 15 November 2006 20:01, Ray Lee wrote: Suggestions? Requests for shudder even more info? Yeah, enable bcm43xx debugging. Sigh, didn't even think to look for that. Okay, enabled and compiling a new kernel. This will take