Re: Total machine lockup w/ current kernels while installing from CD

[Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero@arklinux.org>]

On Thursday, 11. May 2006 03:22, Bernhard Rosenkraenzer wrote:
> Hi,
> I've built a CD that installs a customized system; basically what it does
> is boot from CD (iso9660) and run
>
> mke2fs -m0 -j -O dir_index,filetype,has_journal,sparse_super /dev/hda1
> mount -text3 /dev/hda1 /mnt/dest
> rpm -r /mnt/dest -ivh /RPMS/*
>
> This worked perfectly up until some recent kernel updates - with current
> kernels (both Linus and -mm branch), the system locks up totally at a
> random point during rpm installation (everything goes down, including the
> NumLock LED etc).
>
> I'm currently building some old kernels to see when this problem was
> introduced and sort out what patch did it.
> With 2.6.16-rc6, the problem occurs, but unlike later revisions it gives an
> error message before freezing:
>
> BUG: soft lockup detected on CPU#0!
>
> Pid: 421, comm: kjournald
> EIP: 0060:[<b01a2f52>] CPU: 0
> EIP is at journal_commit_transaction+0x92e/0xfcc
> EFLAGS: 00000297 Not tainted (2.6.16-rc6 #1)
> EAX: 00000001 EBX: c2d34788 ECX: 00000001 EDX: c785e000
> ESI: b3ff8d04 EDI: 000000f0 EBP: b683b840 DS: 007b ES: 007b
> CR0: 8005003b CR2: 0841f7fc CR3: 17217000 CR4: 000006d0
>  [<b02bd52e>] schedule+0x2ee/0x5b6
>  [<b01a6a88>] kjournald+0x201/0x213
>  [<b0111089>] smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x32/0x49
>  [<b01a6937>] kjournald+0xb0/0x213
>  [<b01a5ffa>] commit_timeout+0x0/0x9
>  [<b012a789>] autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x4b
>  [<b01a6887>] kjournald+0x0/0x213
>  [<b0101005>] kernel_thread_helper+0x5/0xb

I'm finally through compiling all kernels between the last good and first bad 
one (slow hardware sucks ;) ) -- the problem was introduced in the patch from 
2.6.16-rc5 to 2.6.16-rc6, and is apparently not present in any -mm releases 
before 2.6.16-rc6.

I'll try to isolate which change between 2.6.16-rc5 and -rc6 causes it... But 
it would be nice if someone who knows a bit more about the code involved 
could look at it.
l
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