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.