On Tue, 29 Jul 2008 14:32:04 +0200 Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 2008-07-29 at 13:57 +0800, Dave Young wrote: > > While set my wlan0 to ad-hoc mode and then set the essid to something, > > this bug triggered. > > > > I suspect it's related to debugfs or mutex? But I'm not sure. > > > > Jul 29 13:01:46 darkstar kernel: [ 8033.736493] BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 61s! [events/0:9] > > Jul 29 13:01:46 darkstar kernel: [ 8033.736493] > > Jul 29 13:01:46 darkstar kernel: [ 8033.736493] Pid: 9, comm: events/0 Tainted: G W (2.6.26-smp #3) > > Jul 29 13:01:46 darkstar kernel: [ 8033.736493] EIP: 0060:[<c0450bc3>] EFLAGS: 00000246 CPU: 0 > > Jul 29 13:01:46 darkstar kernel: [ 8033.736493] EIP is at mutex_lock_nested+0x1b3/0x280 > > Jul 29 13:01:46 darkstar kernel: [ 8033.736493] EAX: 00000000 EBX: f7bf5284 ECX: f7c7e000 EDX: f7bf52a8 > > Jul 29 13:01:46 darkstar kernel: [ 8033.736493] ESI: f7bf5288 EDI: 00000246 EBP: f7c7fedc ESP: f7c7fe9c > > Jul 29 13:01:46 darkstar kernel: [ 8033.736493] DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 0000 SS: 0068 > > Jul 29 13:01:46 darkstar kernel: [ 8033.736493] CR0: 8005003b CR2: b800c5ac CR3: 36e71000 CR4: 000006d0 > > Jul 29 13:01:46 darkstar kernel: [ 8033.736493] DR0: 00000000 DR1: 00000000 DR2: 00000000 DR3: 00000000 > > Jul 29 13:01:46 darkstar kernel: [ 8033.736493] DR6: ffff0ff0 DR7: 00000400 > > Jul 29 13:01:46 darkstar kernel: [ 8033.736493] [<c02375a6>] ? debugfs_create_file+0x46/0x210 > > It looks like it's getting stuck on > mutex_lock(&parent->d_inode->i_mutex); > > inside debugfs_create_by_name, but I have no idea why that would happen. > Dave, please try sysrq-W or sysrq-T during that 60 seconds, see if we can find another task which is holding onto that lock. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
