As johannes pointed out to me the culprit to the e1000e corruption was determined to be ftrace related [1]. Well it seems I hit an oops with ftrace using iwlagn after a simple load of the module using wireless-testing. I'm not sure if john's tree yet has ftrace fixes. Both Fedora 10 and Ubuntu 8.10 had dynamic ftrace enabled so users on these first kernels and using compat-wireless may run into this so just putting this out there. I'll can check for this flag in compat-wireless for now and bitch/exit if its enabled unless someone has a better idea. [1] http://lwn.net/Articles/303390/ Oops, using wireless-testing and iwlagn with these options enabled: CONFIG_HAVE_FTRACE=y CONFIG_HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE=y CONFIG_FTRACE=y CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE=y [ 294.209022] BUG: soft lockup - CPU#1 stuck for 61s! [insmod:9196] [ 294.209022] Modules linked in: iwlcore mac80211 cfg80211 af_packet binfmt_misc rfcomm l2cap uinput ipv6 acpi_cpufreq cpufreq_userspace cpufreq_conservative cpufreq_ondemand cpufreq_powersave cpufreq_stats freq_table pci_slot sbs sbshc container iptable_filter ip_tables x_tables sbp2 snd_hda_intel joydev snd_pcm_oss arc4 snd_mixer_oss ecb snd_pcm snd_seq_dummy snd_seq_oss pcmcia snd_seq_midi sdhci_pci sdhci psmouse serio_raw yenta_socket rsrc_nonstatic pcmcia_core ricoh_mmc mmc_core snd_rawmidi iTCO_wdt iTCO_vendor_support btusb bluetooth ac battery video output snd_seq_midi_event snd_seq snd_timer snd_seq_device shpchp pci_hotplug snd soundcore wmi snd_page_alloc intel_agp agpgart button thinkpad_acpi rfkill hwmon led_class evdev nvram ext3 jbd mbcache sr_mod cdrom sg ata_piix sd_mod crc_t10dif pata_acpi ohci1394 ieee1394 ata_generic ahci libata scsi_mod ehci_hcd uhci_hcd e1000e usbcore thermal processor fan fuse [last unloaded: cfg80211] [ 294.209022] irq event stamp: 208522 [ 294.209022] hardirqs last enabled at (208521): [<c02674ac>] trace_hardirqs_on_thunk+0xc/0x10 [ 294.209022] hardirqs last disabled at (208522): [<c02674bc>] trace_hardirqs_off_thunk+0xc/0x10 [ 294.209022] softirqs last enabled at (208520): [<c013b39b>] __do_softirq+0x13b/0x190 [ 294.209022] softirqs last disabled at (208511): [<c013b47d>] do_softirq+0x8d/0xa0 [ 294.209022] [ 294.209022] Pid: 9196, comm: insmod Not tainted (2.6.28-rc2-wl #9) 6460DWU [ 294.209022] EIP: 0060:[<c018c96d>] EFLAGS: 00000282 CPU: 1 [ 294.209022] EIP is at ftrace_record_ip+0x9d/0x1d0 [ 294.209022] EAX: c209a068 EBX: f80d9c36 ECX: 03380000 EDX: c2714738 [ 294.209022] ESI: c054cda0 EDI: c092d4f8 EBP: f2311e0c ESP: f2311dec [ 294.209022] DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 0033 SS: 0068 [ 294.209022] CR0: 8005003b CR2: b7c4e007 CR3: 32222000 CR4: 00000690 [ 294.209022] DR0: 00000000 DR1: 00000000 DR2: 00000000 DR3: 00000000 [ 294.209022] DR6: ffff0ff0 DR7: 00000400 [ 294.209022] Call Trace: [ 294.209022] [<c018cdff>] ftrace_convert_nops+0x2f/0xd0 [ 294.209022] [<c018ceb6>] ftrace_init_module+0x16/0x20 [ 294.209022] [<c01671fc>] load_module+0x15dc/0x1c10 [ 294.209022] [<c019608c>] ? generic_file_aio_read+0x24c/0x6b0 [ 294.209022] [<c015cecb>] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0xb/0x10 [ 294.209022] [<c0394da4>] ? mutex_lock_interruptible_nested+0x274/0x340 [ 294.209022] [<c0167883>] sys_init_module+0x53/0x1b0 [ 294.209022] [<c015ce65>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0x115/0x170 [ 294.209022] [<c02674ac>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_thunk+0xc/0x10 [ 294.209022] [<c010407b>] sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x3f Luis -- 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
