> Michal, can you update and resubmit, so I can > at least ack your fix and xpedite its merge? I have just retested Michals patch but I have found another lockdep failure. It looks like rndis_msg_parser() can call dev_get_stats too: ------------[ cut here ]------------ WARNING: at kernel/softirq.c:98 ___local_bh_disable+0xc4/0xd0() Modules linked in: g_ether [last unloaded: g_zero] Call trace: [<40003d78>] _show_stack+0x68/0x7c [<40003da0>] _dump_stack+0x14/0x28 [<40016d68>] _warn_slowpath_common+0x5c/0x7c [<40016da0>] _warn_slowpath_null+0x18/0x2c [<4001e330>] ___local_bh_disable+0xc0/0xd0 [<4001e354>] _local_bh_disable+0x14/0x28 [<402bd9e0>] __raw_spin_lock_bh+0x18/0x54 [<4023010c>] _dev_txq_stats_fold+0x7c/0x13c [<40230284>] _dev_get_stats+0xb8/0xc0 [<78056eac>] _rndis_msg_parser+0x288/0xa04 [g_ether] [<7805764c>] _rndis_command_complete+0x24/0x70 [g_ether] [<401c39b8>] _dwc_otg_request_done+0xd4/0x210 [<401c6b48>] _ep0_complete_request+0x1dc/0x220 [<401c6cac>] _handle_ep0+0x120/0x850 [<401c79a4>] _dwc_otg_pcd_handle_in_ep_intr+0x188/0x780 [<401c8200>] _dwc_otg_pcd_handle_intr+0x264/0x294 [<401c36d4>] _dwc_otg_pcd_irq+0x10/0x30 [<4005a60c>] _handle_IRQ_event+0x4c/0x184 [<4005d464>] _handle_level_irq+0xac/0x15c [<4000c154>] _metag_soc_irq_demux+0xac/0xb4 [<40002f54>] _do_IRQ+0x4c/0x78 [<40004180>] _trigger_handler+0x38/0xac [<40000c98>] ___TBIBoingVec+0xc/0x10 [<40003708>] _cpu_idle+0x54/0x78 no locks held by swapper/0. ---[ end trace 74bf431fcc326847 ]--- ================================= [ INFO: inconsistent lock state ] 2.6.37-rc7+ #1833 --------------------------------- inconsistent {HARDIRQ-ON-W} -> {IN-HARDIRQ-W} usage. swapper/0 [HC1[1]:SC0[2]:HE0:SE0] takes: (_xmit_ETHER){?.....}, at: [<40230110>] _dev_txq_stats_fold+0x80/0x13c {HARDIRQ-ON-W} state was registered at: [<4004ddd0>] _lock_acquire+0x98/0xc0 [<402bda00>] __raw_spin_lock_bh+0x38/0x54 [<4023010c>] _dev_txq_stats_fold+0x7c/0x13c [<40230284>] _dev_get_stats+0xb8/0xc0 [<4024461c>] _rtnl_fill_ifinfo+0x330/0x708 [<40245b38>] _rtmsg_ifinfo+0x68/0xf4 [<402342b8>] _register_netdevice+0x3f8/0x498 [<40234398>] _register_netdev+0x40/0x60 [<78056358>] _gether_setup+0x1d0/0x264 [g_ether] [<7806042c>] 0x7806042c [<78059c00>] _composite_bind+0x110/0x380 [g_ether] [<401c27f0>] _usb_gadget_probe_driver+0x9c/0xcc [<78057c90>] _usb_composite_probe+0x98/0xbc [g_ether] [<78060380>] 0x78060380 [<4000210c>] _do_one_initcall+0x178/0x1d0 [<40057ecc>] _sys_init_module+0xd8/0x208 [<40004860>] _switch_handler+0x110/0x170 [<40000c98>] ___TBIBoingVec+0xc/0x10 irq event stamp: 476219 hardirqs last enabled at (476215): [<40003ec4>] _tail_end+0x110/0x1f8 hardirqs last disabled at (476216): [<40004178>] _trigger_handler+0x30/0xac softirqs last enabled at (476218): [<4001e790>] __local_bh_enable+0x14/0x24 softirqs last disabled at (476219): [<402bd9e4>] __raw_spin_lock_bh+0x1c/0x54 other info that might help us debug this: no locks held by swapper/0. -------------------------------------------------------------- So the patch may need some more work, Neil. On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 11:20 AM, David Brownell <david-b@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > >> Yes Michal Nazarewicz has seen this on a S3C UDC, > > Good to confirm that. ÂAs I mentioned, other folk have seen much the same bug on other hardware; we > know it's neither a new nor a HW-specific issue. > > Correction to an earlier comment of mine: > > https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/195562/ > does correctly identify the commit which > caused this bug in multiple drivers. > > However, that patch won't apply to the latest > tree from Linus. > > Michal, can you update and resubmit, so I can > at least ack your fix and xpedite its merge? > > It'd be good Âto have RNDIS work again, a fair > number of folk rely on it, and this seems to be > the main obstacle to continuing to do that. > > > - Dave > > > > > > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html