Re: Silent crash witk 2-6.24-rc8-git4

Chris Clayton
2008-01-31T20:14:31Z

Hi John,

On Wednesday 23 January 2008, John W. Linville wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 04:42:58PM +0000, Chris Clayton wrote:
> > On Wednesday 23 January 2008, Chris Clayton wrote:
> > > Hi again.
> > >
> > > On Tuesday 22 January 2008, Chris Clayton wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> >
> > and here's another, slightly more complete, one, this time from 2.6.24-rc8-git6
> > (the none I sent earlier was from -git4, by the way)
> >
> > Call Trace:
> > [<c011440a>] __update_rq_clock+0x1a/0xf0
> > [<e08ff59d>] rt2x00lib_txdone+0x9d/0xd0 [rt2x00lib]
> > [<e0909573>] rt61pci_txdone+0x153/0x1f0 [rt61pci]
> > [<e09096ad>] rt61pci_interrupt+0x9d/0xb0 [rt61pci]
>
> I suspect this could relate to this commit:
>
> commit 62bc060b8ed5fcdafd87da5ab17bdd59a39ebcc9
> Author: Mattias Nissler <mattias.nissler@gmx.de>
> Date: Mon Nov 12 15:03:12 2007 +0100
>
> rt2x00: Allow rt61 to catch up after a missing tx report
>
> Could you revert that patch, rebuild, and try to recreate the problem?

As you will have seen, Matthias doubted whether his patch would be at the root
of the problem I am seeing. I noticed you posted some patches earlier this week.
Would any combination of those be likely to fix the bug, please? The patch
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/linville/wireless-2.6/upstream/0001-rt61pci-fix-up-merge-damage.patch
applies cleanly to 2.6.24 but the build fails :(

It seems that it may take a little while to get to the bottom of this bug. Should
I raise an incident on bugzilla?

Thanks

Chris
>
> Thanks!
>
> John

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