Should I do anything about this warning?

Sagar Padhye sgr.m.pdy at gmail.com
Wed Oct 8 03:13:58 EDT 2014


Hi,
I am new at kernel programming. I have written a driver for a custom device, running on arm board. It works well (for last few months).
I happen to look at kernel logs and I seen,

[231250.894334] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[231250.899146] WARNING: at kernel/workqueue.c:1953 process_one_work+0x398/0x52c()
[231250.906491] Modules linked in: bcmdhd cfg80211 <XYZ>
[231250.911885] [<c0016450>] (unwind_backtrace+0x0/0x144) from [<c05c04f0>] (dump_stack+0x20/0x24)
[231250.920672] [<c05c04f0>] (dump_stack+0x20/0x24) from [<c006c330>] (warn_slowpath_common+0x5c/0x74)
[231250.929757] [<c006c330>] (warn_slowpath_common+0x5c/0x74) from [<c006c374>] (warn_slowpath_null+0x2c/0x34)
[231250.939581] [<c006c374>] (warn_slowpath_null+0x2c/0x34) from [<c0088f08>] (process_one_work+0x398/0x52c)
[231250.949232] [<c0088f08>] (process_one_work+0x398/0x52c) from [<c00895c8>] (rescuer_thread+0x184/0x230)
[231250.958708] [<c00895c8>] (rescuer_thread+0x184/0x230) from [<c008dd60>] (kthread+0xac/0xb4)
[231250.967236] [<c008dd60>] (kthread+0xac/0xb4) from [<c000fd4c>] (kernel_thread_exit+0x0/0x8)
[231250.975755] ---[ end trace 9f9c2187c0bee21b ]---

The device is still working after this. No issues in operation. I am just sceptical about analyzing this issue? Do I need to check more? If yes how? with this trace?

Thanks,
Sagar



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