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From: Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, tglx@tglx.de,
	alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, rjw@sisk.pl, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	mingo@elte.hu, dwmw2@infradead.org, alsa-devel@alsa-project.org,
	dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: kerneloops.org report for the week of June 14 2009
Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2009 05:11:54 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b6c5339f0906280211n21287f68p6455890fd860c44@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090618223238.4d6b6707@infradead.org>

On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 1:32 AM, Arjan van de Ven<arjan@infradead.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Jun 2009 13:08:39 -0400
> Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com> wrote:
>> > Rank 9: minstrel_get_rate (warning)
>>
>> I believe this is fixed by http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/6/5/269, now
>> in pre-2.6.31.  Hmm, odd though, we should be seeing reports from
>> other wireless drivers since it's a general memory corruption
>> unrelated to ath5k (but not all use the mac80211 rate controllers).
>
> well.. out of the 534 reports or so that I have by now... 525 have
> ath5k loaded.....
>
> it's not 100% but it'd pretty close.

Indeed, I can replicate this now, looks like some kind of race condition
since it's looking for a rate in the 5 ghz band while I'm communicating
with a 2 ghz AP (during a scan perhaps?).  The warning is harmless but
there is some underlying issue to be fixed.

-- 
Bob Copeland %% www.bobcopeland.com

      reply	other threads:[~2009-06-28  9:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-15  0:33 kerneloops.org report for the week of June 14 2009 Arjan van de Ven
2009-06-15  5:53 ` Takashi Iwai
2009-06-15  7:06 ` Stefan Schmidt
2009-06-16  7:11   ` WARN_ON's in i915_gem_tiling.c Stefan Schmidt
2009-06-18 17:08 ` kerneloops.org report for the week of June 14 2009 Bob Copeland
2009-06-19  5:32   ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-06-28  9:11     ` Bob Copeland [this message]

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