SMP kernel lockups

[Dave Jones]

On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 11:37, Norman Gaywood wrote:
> I'm wondering if there is any progress on the smp kernel hangs reported
> in:
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=109962
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=109497
> 
> Is anyone working on these?

Yes.

> Or should I just downgrade to the RH9 kernel and wait for 2.6 in FC2?

They are alternatives, but it doesn't get the problem solved.

> Anything I can do to help? I've got 4 types of systems I can lock up on
> demand. Need sysrq output? Patches tried?

At various points in those bugs I've asked for things like sysrq traces,
so read the bugs, and if you have something that isn't mentioned in the
reports, feel free to add.

I don't think I need to see another report of "its spinning on the inode
lock" again though.

	Dave