Re: emu10k1 lockup? (was: xfree and devel kernels > 2.3.99-pre6)

From: Rui Sousa (rsousa@grad.physics.sunysb.edu)
Date: Tue Jul 04 2000 - 13:16:26 EST


Pete Toscano wrote:
>
> hello,
>
> my machine crashed again. running 2.4.0-test2 smp. the machine has dual
> p3-600 processors, 512M ram, soundblaster live, matrox 400. ever since
> pre7 and above, it would always seem to lock up in x. for a while, i
> thought it was an x/kernel interaction problem, but then i got the
> serial console with kdb running. (thanks, keith. =)
>
> the last time it crashed, i posted an oops and it looked like the lockup
> happened in the emu10k1 module. someone on the list suggested that i
> compile the module into the kernel so that problems could be debugged
> better, so i did. attached are the oops, the ksymoops output run on
> this oops, and some kdb output (hopefully relevant) that keith said
> might be useful in helping debug the problem. (the kdb stuff has been
> edited down substantially for the sake of everyone on this list, so if
> you want to see me, email me directly.)
>
> let me know if you need further detail as i'm very eager to help stomp
> out this bug.
>
> thanks,
> pete
>

I will be sending a patch to Linus that should solve this deadlock.
In the mean time you can go to http://opensource.creative.com
and test the driver CVS version.

Thank you,

Rui Sousa

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