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

On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 03:02:36PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
Well I don't know, but something is going wrong and causing the soft
lock up. I must admit I am surprised if an interrupt can occour while
handling an interrupt, but then again maybe that is supposed to be
allowed.

I tried building a kernel where the only change was enabling the spin
lock debugging. It doesn't fail, while without spin lock debugging it
seemed to fail very frequently. Darn! I hate when debugging makes hides
the problem.

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Len Sorensen
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