[CentOS] kernel panic - spin_lock

[Will McDonald]

On 28/04/06, Johnny Hughes <mailing-lists at hughesjr.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-04-28 at 16:41 +0100, Will McDonald wrote:
> > Guys,
> >
> > one of our boxes just died with the following error:
> >
> > kernel panic - not syncing: fs/block_dev.c:396: spin_lock
> > (fs/block_dev.c:c0361c0) already locked by fs/block_dev.c/287.
> >
>
> There are lots of spinlock issues fixed with a kernel that is in our
> testing repo ...
>
> THIS IS A TESTING KERNEL !!!!
>
>
> (did I mention this was a testing kernel ... :)

So, this testing kernel, it'll be fine and if there are any problems I
can blame you guys for not telling me, right? :)

I may give that a pop if the problem becomes more frequent but so far
I think I've seen spin_lock panics twice in 6 months, so I may bide my
time.

Cheers.

Will.