Re: RFC/T: Possible fix for bcm43xx periodic work bug

Erik Mouw wrote:

On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 08:36:36AM -0500, Larry Finger wrote:

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Erik Mouw wrote:

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Thanks for the information, pulled wireless-2.6 and recompiling kernel.
If this really fixes the problem, can we try to get it merged before
2.6.18 closes? I don't know if vanilla 2.6.18-rc6 locks up on other
hardware as well, but if it does it would be a major regression against
2.6.17.

I'm trying. At the moment, I'm testing a patch against 2.6.18-rc6. Once it works here, I'll be 
putting it out for testing.

I suppose that's the patch in "[PATCH] fix for system lockups in
2.6.18-rcX caused by bcm43xx"?

Yes.

FWIW: 2.6.18-rc6+wireless-2.6 runs well, my laptop didn't lock up over
the weekend.

It seems to hurt some hardware much worse than others. My BCM4306 Rev 2 could
not run without failure longer than ~6 hours, and sometimes as short as 10 minutes,
before the patch. I've now completed the equivalent of 3 weeks without a failure
(I'm running the preemptible periodic work every second instead of every minute).

Larry