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Re: BUG: AR9271 cause a Kernel Panic on ARM11 SMP environment

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Dear Stanislaw,

Thank you.

On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 13:23:26 +0100
Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 09:52:01AM -0500, John W. Linville wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 02:17:07PM +0900, Takashi Kawamoto wrote:
> [snip]
> > My guess would be that somehow you are leaking hif_dev->tx.tx_lock,
> > and then hanging when trying to retake it in hif_usb_send_tx.
> > Unfortunately, it is not obvious to me how that might happen...
> Perhaps CONFIG_LOCKDEP could give some more info.

I see. I'll try it.

> 
> > > CPU         : ARM11MP
> > > Kernel      : 2.6.33 (SMP enabled)
> What about newer kernels .35 , .37, .38-rcX ?

I've not tried to use those.

> 
> > > (2) When multi processor mode is enabled
> > >     When SMP option of the kernel is disabled (CONFIG_SMP=m), this 
> > >     panic doesn't occur.
> For CONFIG_PREEMPT=n and CONFIG_SMP=n spin locks are compiled out from
> kernel, they are simply not needed.

The same goes on CONFIG_PREEMPT=n and CONFIG_SMP=y ?
I want to avoid this crash with SMP enabled.



Best Regards,
Takashi Kawamoto

> 
> Stanislaw
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