Re: oops in 3c59x driver

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Sat, 25 Aug 2001 01:12:36 +0100 (BST)

> Decoded oops is below. The machine died in the middle of transferring
> a large chunk of data (500Mb or so) via ssh. It did that twice in a row
> now so it seems to be reprocuable.

Beautiful trace. You took an IRQ during PnPBIOS call and your machine
exploded. Do me a favour -

Change the semaphore in drivers/pnp/pnp_bios.c to a spinlock_irqsave
and __cli/ spin_unlock_irqrestore. See if the crashes then go away.

Alan
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