----- "Daniel J Blueman" <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 1 Jun, 19:40, "Lee Revell" <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On 6/1/07, Matthew Fredrickson <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > > is it acceptable (although
> > > not nice) to simply fix it this way, by disabling irqs while it
> loads
> > > the firmware?
> >
> > I would say to just disable IRQs while loading firmware. Almost
> every
> > server I maintain has some vendor driver which generates a "many
> lost
> > ticks!" message on load. As long as it's only done at module load
> > time it should be fine.
>
> For anything ~10s or more, you'll probably also need to call the
> timer
> update function to prevent soft lockup warning being generated.
Ahhh... so there is a way to get rid of that cursed message. I forgot to mention this in my original message, the only place that I had seen this problem is on a certain machine (Dell 2950) with a certain distribution (FC6) kernel. I had trimmed the code down to fit in 4K stacks already quite a bit.
I believe what actually made it crash and overflow the stack (the straw that breaks the camels back, so to speak) was the intermittent triggering of the softlockup detector. I think if I can disable that while the firmware is loading that will fix the stack overflow issues and correct my problem.
Matthew Fredrickson
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