From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755138AbWKRRFx (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Nov 2006 12:05:53 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754734AbWKRRFw (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Nov 2006 12:05:52 -0500 Received: from mtiwmhc13.worldnet.att.net ([204.127.131.117]:22767 "EHLO mtiwmhc13.worldnet.att.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754637AbWKRRFw (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Nov 2006 12:05:52 -0500 Message-ID: <455F3D44.4010502@lwfinger.net> Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2006 11:05:08 -0600 From: Larry Finger User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 (X11/20061025) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Johannes Berg CC: Joseph Fannin , Andrew Morton , Ray Lee , netdev@vger.kernel.org, LKML , John Linville , Michael Buesch , Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de Subject: Re: bcm43xx regression 2.6.19rc3 -> rc5, rtnl_lock trouble? References: <455B63EC.8070704@madrabbit.org> <20061118112438.GB15349@nineveh.rivenstone.net> <1163868955.27188.2.camel@johannes.berg> In-Reply-To: <1163868955.27188.2.camel@johannes.berg> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Johannes Berg wrote: > On Sat, 2006-11-18 at 06:24 -0500, Joseph Fannin wrote: > >> This sounds like what my laptop was doing in -rc5, though mine >> didn't take hours to start acting up. >> >> I *think* it was the MSI troubles, causing interrupts to get >> lost forever. Anyway, it went away in -rc6. > > Hah, that's a lot more plausible than bcm43xx's drain patch actually > causing this. So maybe somehow interrupts for bcm43xx aren't routed > properly or something... > > Ray, please check /proc/interrupts when this happens. > > I am convinced that the patch in question (drain tx status) is not > causing this -- the patch should be a no-op in most cases anyway, and in > those cases where it isn't a no-op it'll run only once at card init and > remove some things from a hardware-internal FIFO. I agree that drain tx status should not cause the problem. Ray, does -rc6 solve your problem as it did for Joseph? Larry