Error message> wlan0: SW TICK stuck?

[Jouni Malinen]

On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 11:44:33AM +0200, Milos Sramek wrote:

> What does this error message mean ??  and why it's egressing ??
> 
> wlan0: SW TICK stuck? bits=0x0 EvStat=8001 IntEn=e018
> 
> Linux repeatly this message to console and is total "dead".

Host AP driver uses a software watchdog to detect busy looping IRQ
events. That message should be displayed every two seconds if most of
the kernel gets stuck (deadlock etc.) but hw interrupts are still
working. Did you happen to catch any messages just before the first 'SW
TICK stuck' message?

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Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA