On Fri, 2006-04-28 at 17:04 +0100, Will McDonald wrote:
On 28/04/06, Johnny Hughes mailing-lists@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.
:)
Just for the record, I am running the testing kernel on my main workstation (an smp i686 machine) and it has been working fine for me since built on 20 April. It is 2.6.9-34.19.EL and was based on a kernel from here: