From: Daniel Mack <daniel@caiaq.de>
To: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, libertas-dev@lists.infradead.org,
Michael Hirsch <m.hirsch@raumfeld.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Libertas related kernel crash
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 07:54:57 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091110065457.GL14091@buzzloop.caiaq.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1257835893.15493.37.camel@localhost.localdomain>
On Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 10:51:33PM -0800, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-11-09 at 16:53 +0100, Daniel Mack wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 05, 2009 at 01:05:49PM +0100, Daniel Mack wrote:
> > > On an ARM (PXA300) embdedded platform with a libertas chip connected via
> > > SDIO, we happen to see the kernel Ooops below once in a while.
> > >
> > > Any pointer on where to dig?
> >
> > Some more input on this. Oopses similar to the one below are likely
> > triggered when switching from Ad-hoc to managed mode multiple times in a
> > row, and something seems corrupt the memory badly. I've searched for the
> > obvious (double frees, out-of-bound writes etc), but I couldn't find
> > anything yet. It is, however, related to the wireless core and/or the
> > libertas driver.
>
> Probably just libertas. Any chance you can enable debugging options
> (either in libertas, or in the kernel allocator) to help narrow down the
> issue?
Sure. I already enabled DEBUG_VM, but that didn't spit out anything
before it crashes. Which other debug flags would you recommend to set?
Daniel
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-10 6:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-11-05 12:05 Libertas related kernel crash Daniel Mack
2009-11-09 15:53 ` Daniel Mack
2009-11-10 6:51 ` Dan Williams
2009-11-10 6:54 ` Daniel Mack [this message]
2009-11-10 7:04 ` Dan Williams
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