Comment 6 for bug 63793

The bug is alive and kicking as of 2008-03-03 with 2.6.24-14-386.

When pcmcia card is inserted, dmesg shows:

[ 918.729490] =======================
[ 930.524460] BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 11s! [swapper:0]
[ 930.524569]
[ 930.524573] Pid: 0, comm: swapper Tainted: P (2.6.24-14-386 #1)
[ 930.524578] EIP: 0060:[<c0124f23>] EFLAGS: 00000206 CPU: 0
[ 930.524584] EIP is at __do_softirq+0x33/0xa0
[ 930.524588] EAX: c03fa000 EBX: 00000002 ECX: 00000002 EDX: 00000082
[ 930.524593] ESI: c03d9640 EDI: 0000000a EBP: 00000000 ESP: c03fbf4c
[ 930.524598] DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 0000 GS: 0000 SS: 0068
[ 930.524603] CR0: 8005003b CR2: b7ec45cc CR3: 37032000 CR4: 00000690
[ 930.524608] DR0: 00000000 DR1: 00000000 DR2: 00000000 DR3: 00000000
[ 930.524613] DR6: ffff0ff0 DR7: 00000400
[ 930.524636] [<c0124fd5>] do_softirq+0x45/0x50
[ 930.524649] [<c010752c>] do_IRQ+0x3c/0x70
[ 930.524701] [<c0106183>] common_interrupt+0x23/0x30
[ 930.524753] [<c015007b>] audit_alloc+0xeb/0x110
[ 930.524759] [<c011007b>] wakeup_code+0x7b/0xde
[ 930.524785] [<f884da72>] acpi_idle_enter_simple+0x140/0x1aa [processor]
[ 930.524857] [<c02734c1>] cpuidle_idle_call+0x71/0xa0
[ 930.524879] [<c010361c>] cpu_idle+0x1c/0x70
[ 930.524885] [<c03fcb05>] start_kernel+0x245/0x2d0
[ 930.524897] [<c03fc370>] unknown_bootoption+0x0/0x1e0
[ 930.524929] =======================
[ 936.685659] cs: pcmcia_socket1: unable to apply power.

last line comes after I pull the card (PCMCIA USB 2.0 card) out.

In terms of workaround, I would appreciate if someone finds a good solution (disabling pcmciautils seems to invite breakage because it runs as a service in several runlevels)