Re: Strange soft lockup detected message (looks like spin_lock bug in pcnet32)

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 04:33:26PM +0200, Frederik Deweerdt wrote:
> On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 10:10:24AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> > On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 04:31:43PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> [...]
> > Should line 2563 be a spin_lock_irqsave instead along with the
> > appropriate unluck later?
> IIRC, when you enable lockdep, it will complain about spinlocks used in
> an invalid context.

What is lockdep and how do I enable it?

I enabled SPINLOCK_DEBUG and am going to try that kernel now (except it
hit the bug before I could even log in and install the kernel this time,
so another reboot first).

--
Len Sorensen
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