Re: "Badness in local_bh_enable" - a reasonable fix?

[Arjan van de Ven]

On Wed, 2005-10-26 at 15:34 -0400, Steve Snyder wrote:
> [ I observed the following on a Fedora Core 3 system, running kernel 
> 2.6.12-1.1380_FC3.  I am posting this here because a quick Googling 
> indicates that the problem is not specific to this environment.  ] 
> 
> Today I found my system log filled with the error shown below.  
> Reading a 366MB file across a NFS mount results in over 6300 
> occurrences of the error being written to the system log of the NFS 
> server.  
> 
> I have 2 network interfaces in the NFS server machine, a standard 
> kernel Ethernet device driver and my own Ultra-Wide Band (UWB) device 
> driver.  (In the error shown below the references to "fsuwbpci" are my 
> driver.) This problem is not seen when using the Ethernet interface, 
> but is perfectly consistent when reading a NFS-mounted file across the 
> UWB interface.  Therefore there is a problem with my code.  
> 
> I quickly established that the error came from within this routine:
> 

> -------------------------------------------
> 
> kernel: Badness in local_bh_enable at kernel/softirq.c:140 (Tainted: P     )



hmmm binary module? please try without.

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