From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 12 Aug 2001 18:55:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 12 Aug 2001 18:55:18 -0400 Received: from leng.mclure.org ([64.81.48.142]:27919 "EHLO leng.internal.mclure.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 12 Aug 2001 18:55:15 -0400 Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2001 15:55:20 -0700 From: Manuel McLure To: Linus Torvalds Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Hang problem on Tyan K7 Thunder resolved -- SB Live! heads-up Message-ID: <20010812155520.A935@ulthar.internal.mclure.org> In-Reply-To: <20010812113142.G948@ulthar.internal.mclure.org> <20010812133539.A17802@ulthar.internal.mclure.org> <20010812145953.A955@ulthar.internal.mclure.org> <200108122224.f7CMOGO01895@penguin.transmeta.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT In-Reply-To: <200108122224.f7CMOGO01895@penguin.transmeta.com>; from torvalds@transmeta.com on Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 15:24:16 -0700 X-Mailer: Balsa 1.2.pre1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 2001.08.12 15:24 Linus Torvalds wrote: > In article <20010812145953.A955@ulthar.internal.mclure.org> you write: > > > >I've answered that one on my own - I installed today's CVS emu10k1 and > got > >another Oops: > > The oops seems to be due to "wave_dev->woinst" being NULL. > > Can you try just adding the line > > if (!woinst) > return; > > to the top of the function (just before the "spin_lock_irqsave()"). Does > that fix it for you? > > Linus So far so good - however I don't have a consistent way to reproduce this. I'll just keep running and see if the Oops happens again. -- Manuel A. McLure KE6TAW | ...for in Ulthar, according to an ancient | and significant law, no man may kill a cat. | -- H.P. Lovecraft