From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751312AbWFYBAs (ORCPT ); Sat, 24 Jun 2006 21:00:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751314AbWFYBAs (ORCPT ); Sat, 24 Jun 2006 21:00:48 -0400 Received: from asteria.debian.or.at ([86.59.21.34]:1508 "EHLO asteria.debian.or.at") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751312AbWFYBAs (ORCPT ); Sat, 24 Jun 2006 21:00:48 -0400 Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2006 03:00:47 +0200 From: Peter Palfrader To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, openipmi-developer@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Openipmi-developer] BUG: soft lockup detected on CPU#1, ipmi_si Message-ID: <20060625010047.GP3519@asteria.noreply.org> Mail-Followup-To: Peter Palfrader , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, openipmi-developer@lists.sourceforge.net References: <20060613233521.GO22999@asteria.noreply.org> <44962116.70302@acm.org> <20060619093851.GL27377@asteria.noreply.org> <449AA320.3060700@acm.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <449AA320.3060700@acm.org> X-PGP: 1024D/94C09C7F 5B00 C96D 5D54 AEE1 206B AF84 DE7A AF6E 94C0 9C7F X-Request-PGP: http://www.palfrader.org/keys/94C09C7F.asc X-Accept-Language: de, en User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 22 Jun 2006, Corey Minyard wrote: > Peter, can you make a code change for me and try something out? > > If possible, could you change the call to udelay(1) in the function > ipmi_thread() in drivers/char/ipmi_si_intf.c to be a call to schedule() > instead? I'm guessing that will fix this problem. That appears to work. I can still get sensor data using ipmitool, and I haven't gotten any of the soft lockup warnings in 4 hours. Thanks! -- | .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** Peter Palfrader | : :' : The universal http://www.palfrader.org/ | `. `' Operating System | `- http://www.debian.org/