Hi. I've noticed that the stable kernel throws up a lot of exceptions upon resume related to mutexes. I've also noticed that the latest testing kernel seems to have no mutex or spinlock support (or something like that), because some of the modules refuse to load. So I presume someone is working on this problem and has disabled the mutex mechanisms to eliminate it.... For example, ipv6 and ppp_generic complain about these: ppp_generic: Unknown symbol _spin_lock_bh ppp_generic: Unknown symbol _spin_unlock_bh ppp_generic: Unknown symbol mutex_lock_nested ppp_generic: Unknown symbol _read_unlock_bh ppp_generic: Unknown symbol _spin_unlock ppp_generic: Unknown symbol _write_lock_bh ppp_generic: Unknown symbol _read_lock_bh ppp_generic: Unknown symbol __spin_lock_init ppp_generic: Unknown symbol __rwlock_init ppp_generic: Unknown symbol _spin_lock ppp_generic: Unknown symbol _write_unlock_bh ppp_generic: Unknown symbol _spin_lock_bh ppp_generic: Unknown symbol _spin_unlock_bh ppp_generic: Unknown symbol mutex_lock_nested ppp_generic: Unknown symbol _read_unlock_bh ppp_generic: Unknown symbol _spin_unlock ppp_generic: Unknown symbol _write_lock_bh ppp_generic: Unknown symbol _read_lock_bh ppp_generic: Unknown symbol __spin_lock_init ppp_generic: Unknown symbol __rwlock_init ppp_generic: Unknown symbol _spin_lock ppp_generic: Unknown symbol _write_unlock_bh ipv6: Unknown symbol _spin_lock_bh ipv6: Unknown symbol lockdep_init_map ipv6: Unknown symbol _spin_unlock_bh ipv6: Unknown symbol _read_unlock ipv6: Unknown symbol _write_unlock ipv6: Unknown symbol _read_unlock_bh ipv6: Unknown symbol _write_lock ipv6: Unknown symbol _spin_unlock ipv6: Unknown symbol _spin_lock_nested ipv6: Unknown symbol _write_lock_bh ipv6: Unknown symbol _read_lock_bh ipv6: Unknown symbol lock_acquire
I'd like to know what is going on. I can't find any concrete ticket in trac. Can anyone point me to one, or otherwise clarify what exactly is being done to debug the original mutex problem, and why some of the modules are broken like this? Thanks, Vasco. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
