[OpenAFS-devel] Problems on 8-way Itanium2 system

[chas williams - CONTRACTOR]

In message <Pine.LNX.4.58.0501291323560.29487@iris03.slac.stanford.edu>,Alf Wac
hsmann writes:
>0xe000000004408c20 ia64_spinlock_contention+0x20
>        args (0xe0000134f3e3b500, 0x1, 0xe0000134f3e3b774, 0xe0000134f3e3b770,
> 0xe0000034f33cfc40)
>        kernel .text 0xe000000004400000 0xe000000004408c00 0xe000000004408c50
>        r31 (spinlock address) 0xe000000004ea4380 kernel_flag
>0xe0000000045f03b0 ext2_new_block+0x11d0
>        kernel .text 0xe000000004400000 0xe0000000045ef1e0 0xe0000000045f0d80

any chance you could do something like:

gdb /usr/src/linux/fs/ext2/balloc.o
(gdb) info line *ext2_new_block+0x11d0

to see if we can get some more info about this stuck spinlock.  also
you might try creating/converting to an ext3 partition instead.