From: Larry Finger <larry.finger@lwfinger.net>
To: Larry Finger <larry.finger@lwfinger.net>
Cc: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix handling of failure to create debugfs directory
Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2007 01:02:29 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46B95C75.8060404@lwfinger.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46B95A15.1080202@lwfinger.net>
Larry Finger wrote:
> Pavel Roskin wrote:
>> This can happen if CONFIG_BCM43XX_MAC80211_DEBUG is enabled, but
>> CONFIG_DEBUG_FS is not.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
>> ---
>>
> With this patch installed, and the DEBUG configuration set as above, I get a kernel panic on an
> x86_64 SMP system. The reason for the panic scrolled off the screen, but the complete stack dump
> (hand copied) is as follows:
>
> lock_acquire+0x85/0x31
> bcm43xx_mac80211: bcm43xx_debugfs_log_txstat+0x5a/099
> _spin_lock+0x25/0x31
Ignore the noise above. I had failed to get the right patch. The crash confirms the problem
_without_ the patch. Getting it in properly fixes the problem
Acked-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Larry
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-08 6:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-08 5:17 [PATCH] Fix handling of failure to create debugfs directory Pavel Roskin
2007-08-08 5:52 ` Larry Finger
2007-08-08 6:02 ` Larry Finger [this message]
2007-08-08 11:16 ` Michael Buesch
2007-08-08 10:38 ` Michael Buesch
2007-08-08 9:04 ` Michael Buesch
2007-08-08 12:04 ` Larry Finger
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