System freezes with smp kernel

[Dave Jones]

On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 09:15:36PM -0700, Todd Simi wrote:
 
 > I've moved my hard drive to a new Core 2 Duo system and it freezes (Panics) 
 > 2 - 5 minutes after booting.  I get about a page of debugging info, but
 > the two lines that are understandable to me are
 > 
 > BUG: spinlock recursion on CPU#1, swapper/0 (not tainted)
 > 
 > BUG: warning at arch/i386/kernel/smp.c:540/smp_call_function() (not tainted)
 > 
 > My system is a
 > 
 > Core 2 Duo E6600 2.4Ghz
 > Asus P5W DH Deluxe
 > 1GB Ram (Corsair PC-8000)
 > 73GB WD Raptor
 > 
 > The system runs fine with the non-smp kernel
 > 
 > I'm trying to run vmlinuz-2.6.17-1.2187_FC5smp
 > 
 > Any ideas where to look first?

Try the kernel currently in updates-testing.
That has some (much) improved code for debugging locking problems.

	Dave

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