Re: 18rc1 soft lockup

[Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>]

Hi,

On Thu, 13 Jul 2006, john stultz wrote:

> > Just when I thought it had gotten fixed..
> > 2.6.18rc1-git6 this time on x86-64..
> > 
> > BUG: soft lockup detected on CPU#3!
> > 
> > Call Trace:
> >  [<ffffffff80270865>] show_trace+0xaa/0x23d
> >  [<ffffffff80270a0d>] dump_stack+0x15/0x17
> >  [<ffffffff802c44e6>] softlockup_tick+0xd5/0xea
> >  [<ffffffff80250bea>] run_local_timers+0x13/0x15
> >  [<ffffffff8029cc1d>] update_process_times+0x4c/0x79
> >  [<ffffffff8027bfeb>] smp_local_timer_interrupt+0x2b/0x50
> >  [<ffffffff8027c766>] smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x58/0x62
> >  [<ffffffff802628ae>] apic_timer_interrupt+0x6a/0x70
> 
> Hmmm.. grumble. Was this on bootup, or after some time period?
> 
> I'm looking into it.

I don't quite understand how this is clock related, soft lockup uses 
jiffies and there is nothing clock related in the trace???

bye, Roman
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/