Re: 2.6.28-rc4: BUG: spinlock lockup on CPU#0

[David Miller]

From: "Alexander Beregalov" <a.beregalov@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 03:09:54 +0300

> 2008/11/12 David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> > From: Alexander Beregalov <a.beregalov@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 02:32:30 +0300
> >
> >> It is on sparc64 (Ultra 10). 2.6.28-rc4-00011-g3ad4f59
> >>
> >> BUG: spinlock lockup on CPU#0, metalog/1322, 00000000007f1430
> >> Kernel panic - not syncing: Aiee, killing interrupt handler!
> >>
> >> It seems Sysrq does not work.
> >>
> >> David, how can I provide more info before I reboot it ?
> >>
> >> Full dmesg:
> >
> > Hmm, this BUG message should have given you a register dump and a
> > backtrace.
> >
> > Can you give it a "Alt-SysRQ-p" and show the output?
> No, sysrq does not work, even Stop-A does not work now.
> How could it be.

The cpu stuck on the spinlock has interrupts disabled, but this
is the cpu that services console interrupts.

That's how it could be.
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