Re: 2.6.17 x86_64 regression - reboot fails due to deadlock

From: Arjan van de Ven
Date: Thu Jul 06 2006 - 12:21:39 EST


> In kdb, the system sits idle awaiting something to schedule, but nothing
> will schedule since there is
> a deadlock on the supermicro. Any clues as to how to find which notifier
> is deadlocked?

Hi,


if it's really a deadlock, then lockdep (new in 2.6.18-rc1) ought to
find it... just enable the various locking debug options in the -rc1
kernel and... it's active.


Greetings,
Arjan van de Ven

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