Re: rc9 + orinoco WPA patchset: BUG: scheduling while atomicloading firmware with PCMCIA adapter

From: Dan Williams
Date: Thu Oct 09 2008 - 12:08:15 EST


On Thu, 2008-10-09 at 19:59 +0400, Andrey Borzenkov wrote:
> On Thursday 09 October 2008, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 05:22:55PM +0400, Andrey Borzenkov wrote:
> > > After loading orinoco and "inserting" adapter I get either BUG with
> > > endless loop (attached) or kernel panic on NULL pointer dereference
> > > (was not able capture). Adapter works fine with wlags49 driver.
> >
> > It looks like you've fallen off the bottom of the kernel stack. Do you
> > have 4k stacks enabled in your config?
> >
>
> You are right. Using 8K stacks load and runs fine. Hmm ... not nice
> from it :p

== driver bug; the driver should not require large stacks and this
should get fixed.

Dan


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