[CentOS] kernel panic - spin_lock

[Johnny Hughes]

On Fri, 2006-04-28 at 17:04 +0100, Will McDonald wrote:
> 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.

:)

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:

http://people.redhat.com/~jbaron/rhel4/


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