On Wed, 2007-07-18 at 10:58 -0400, Chuck Ebbert wrote: > 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.
Heh, yes, that's the patchset that came from this bug :) A patch for this is available but due to process issues hasn't percolated up yet. See http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.wireless.general/3315/focus=3319 johannes
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