Re: Hard LOCKUP, maybe acpi related (present in 2.6.32 to 2.6.37,fixed in 2.6.38)

[Don Zickus]

On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 12:50:35PM +0200, Sebastian Färber wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to track down a problem i have with newer hardware which seems
> fixed in 2.6.38.4 but which i can reproduce from 2.6.32 to 2.6.37
> I'm running a DEBUG Kernel with nmi_watchdog=1 and attached a backtrace
> of the lockup that happened on 2.6.37.6. I can also provide backtraces for
> 2.6.32 to 2.6.35 if necessary, they look very similar.

It looks like you are using the old nmi watchdog which may have given you
false positives.  Can you turn on the new nmi watchdog (for 2.6.36 or
later)?

CONFIG_LOCKUP_DETECTOR=y
CONFIG_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR=y

and see if that gives a more meaningful backtrace?

Cheers,
Don
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