Re: Serial related oops

From: Russell King
Date: Thu Mar 01 2007 - 10:10:57 EST


On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 01:33:28PM +0000, Jose Goncalves wrote:
> I've also done your suggestion and I've inserted "msleep(10);" just
> before the "And clear the interrupt registers again for luck." and my
> application is now running without problems fore more than 24H! So,
> inserting a delay in this point definitely makes some difference (has
> was with adding some extra printk() in several points of
> serial8250_startup()).
>
> This said, for me, this is definitely a software problem. The question
> is were?

I'm personally convinced it's hardware because according to my analysis
your CPU behaving in a way that the code is not asking it to do so.

Maybe others have some further insight; I certainly don't.

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Russell King
Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
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