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From: Dave Oxley <dave@××××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6.27-r5 soft lockup
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 07:01:27
Message-Id: 49475240.90904@daveoxley.co.uk
1 I upgraded from gentoo-sources-2.6.27-r4 to -r5 a couple of days ago and
2 got the below error messages in /var/log/messages. Also dovecot was
3 using 100% CPU and could not be killed. This resulted in me having to
4 hard reset the server. This happened 3 times until I eventually reverted
5 back to -r4 and all was stable again. The config used for both kernels
6 was the same and it happened after irregular intervals of between 5
7 hours and 9 hours.
8
9 Anyone have any ideas? Things are back to normal now but I will
10 obviously be wary about my next kernel upgrade.
11
12 Cheers,
13 Dave.
14
15 Dec 15 23:28:07 blackadder dovecot: IMAP(XXX): Disconnected in IDLE
16 bytes=2719/16492
17 Dec 15 23:28:07 blackadder dovecot: IMAP(XXX): Disconnected in IDLE
18 bytes=7074/519701
19 Dec 15 23:28:07 blackadder dovecot: IMAP(XXX): Connection closed
20 bytes=2238/2810
21 Dec 15 23:28:34 blackadder named[6829]: *** POKED TIMER ***
22 Dec 15 23:28:34 blackadder named[6829]: *** POKED TIMER ***
23 Dec 15 23:28:34 blackadder named[6829]: *** POKED TIMER ***
24 Dec 15 23:28:54 blackadder BUG: soft lockup - CPU#3 stuck for 61s!
25 [imap:30763]
26 Dec 15 23:28:54 blackadder Modules linked in: dahdi_echocan_mg2 pppoe
27 pppox ppp_async ppp_generic slhc lirc_dev ipt_ipp2p wctdm dahdi
28 dvb_usb_dib0700 dcdbas
29 Dec 15 23:28:54 blackadder CPU 3:
30 Dec 15 23:28:54 blackadder Modules linked in: dahdi_echocan_mg2 pppoe
31 pppox ppp_async ppp_generic slhc lirc_dev ipt_ipp2p wctdm dahdi
32 dvb_usb_dib0700 dcdbas
33 Dec 15 23:28:54 blackadder Pid: 30763, comm: imap Not tainted
34 2.6.27-gentoo-r5 #1
35 Dec 15 23:28:54 blackadder RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff806424c0>]
36 [<ffffffff806424c0>] mutex_lock+0x3/0xb
37 Dec 15 23:28:54 blackadder RSP: 0018:ffff8800047e3ea0 EFLAGS: 00000246
38 Dec 15 23:28:54 blackadder RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff88008dc92bc0
39 RCX: 0000000000000001
40 Dec 15 23:28:54 blackadder RDX: 0000000000000002 RSI: 0000000000000001
41 RDI: ffff88008dc92be0
42 Dec 15 23:28:54 blackadder RBP: 0000000040000000 R08: 0000000000000000
43 R09: 49450350474a6a2f
44 Dec 15 23:28:54 blackadder R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246
45 R12: 0000000000000000
46 Dec 15 23:28:54 blackadder R13: 49450350474a6a2f R14: 0000000000000000
47 R15: 0000000000000246
48 Dec 15 23:28:54 blackadder FS: 00007f51e570c6f0(0000)
49 GS:ffff8800bf687b40(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
50 Dec 15 23:28:54 blackadder CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
51 Dec 15 23:28:54 blackadder CR2: 00007f51e5089860 CR3: 00000000481bc000
52 CR4: 00000000000006e0
53 Dec 15 23:28:54 blackadder DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000
54 DR2: 0000000000000000
55 Dec 15 23:28:54 blackadder DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0
56 DR7: 0000000000000400
57 Dec 15 23:28:54 blackadder
58 Dec 15 23:28:54 blackadder Call Trace:
59 Dec 15 23:28:54 blackadder [<ffffffff802b1976>] ? inotify_destroy+0x21/0xd7
60 Dec 15 23:28:54 blackadder [<ffffffff802b1ebc>] ? inotify_release+0x1c/0xad
61 Dec 15 23:28:54 blackadder [<ffffffff80288578>] ? __fput+0x9d/0x186
62 Dec 15 23:28:54 blackadder [<ffffffff80285db3>] ? filp_close+0x48/0x6e
63 Dec 15 23:28:54 blackadder [<ffffffff8028701d>] ? sys_close+0x7e/0xbe
64 Dec 15 23:28:54 blackadder [<ffffffff8020b42b>] ?
65 system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
66 Dec 15 23:28:54 blackadder

Replies

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[gentoo-user] Re: Kernel 2.6.27-r5 soft lockup Holger Hoffstaette <holger@×××××××.de>
Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6.27-r5 soft lockup Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto <please.no.spam.here@×××××.com>