Re: hang with "wait_on_bh" trace

Ingo Molnar (mingo@chiara.csoma.elte.hu)
Tue, 9 Mar 1999 18:42:18 +0100 (CET)


On Tue, 9 Mar 1999, Alan Curry wrote:

> A Fairly Big Server just died 3 times with "wait_on_bh" showing on the
> console. The call trace looked like:
>
> synchronize_bh
> tcp_v4_unhash
> tcp_close_state
> tcp_close
> inet_release
> sock_release
> sock_close
> __fput
>
> (symbols translated by hand from System.map)
>
> It was running 2.2.1 at the time. Yesterday the same machine running 2.0.36
> decided to kill its ethernet driver (eepro100) with the message "too much
> work in interrupt".
>
> Today it froze once during boot (2.2.1) right after "Probing for PCI
> devices".

this looks like the socket locking bug fixed in 2.2.2.

-- mingo

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