From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
To: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Cc: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: lockdep warning in ieee80211 rx path
Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2010 14:42:37 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CAB9BCD.7010501@candelatech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201010042036.12542.chunkeey@googlemail.com>
On 10/04/2010 11:36 AM, Christian Lamparter wrote:
> On Monday 04 October 2010 20:07:54 Ben Greear wrote:
>> On 10/04/2010 11:00 AM, Christian Lamparter wrote:
>>> On Monday 04 October 2010 19:52:12 Ben Greear wrote:
>>>> On 09/14/2010 01:51 PM, Christian Lamparter wrote:
>>>>> On Sunday 05 September 2010 11:32:26 Ming Lei wrote:
>>>>>> Seems the warning does not affect use of wireless, false positive?
>>>>>
>>>>> No, it's a bug... but please read& test the attached patch.
>>>>
>>>> This is not yet in wireless-testing. Should it be?
>>> have you heard anything from Ming Lei about this subject?
>>> Or have you reproduced the bug too?
>>
>> See my post about inconsistent {IN-SOFTIRQ-W} -> {SOFTIRQ-ON-W}.
>>
>> I'm not sure it's the same bug, but it would appear similar at least.
> At first glance, your trace looks unrelated to Ming Lei's issue.
> But we won't know for sure, unless you have a reliable way to
> reproduce the exact circumstances.
>
>> If your patch is probably good, I can go ahead and apply it.
>> We can at least test that it doesn't obviously make things worse.
> Ok, if the patch doesn't make things worse than they are, I can
> risk another attempt.
We've been running your patch for a few days, and it hasn't caused
any additional problems as far as I can tell.
Thanks,
Ben
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Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-05 21:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-05 9:32 lockdep warning in ieee80211 rx path Ming Lei
2010-09-08 22:40 ` Andrew Morton
2010-09-14 20:51 ` Christian Lamparter
2010-10-04 17:52 ` Ben Greear
2010-10-04 18:00 ` Christian Lamparter
2010-10-04 18:07 ` Ben Greear
2010-10-04 18:36 ` Christian Lamparter
2010-10-05 21:42 ` Ben Greear [this message]
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