[OpenAFS-devel] System lockup with do_IRQ: stack overflow

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Mon, 26 Feb 2007, Deon George wrote:

> chas williams - CONTRACTOR wrote:
>> unfortunately the afs client (and vmware too actually) need quite a
>> bit of stack space.  if you can, rebuild with the 4KSTACKS option
>> disabled.
>> 
> I've just checked my running FC3 machine and it has CONFIG_4KSTACKS=y - and I 
> dont have any problems with it.
>
> I've just noticed that my FC3 machine, I built the afs kernel modules, 
> however, with the FC6 and RHEL5 machine, I got the kernel module from atrpms.
>
> I've just tried rebuilding the kernel modules myself, and it fails (on the 
> RHEL5) machine with
>
> FATAL: modpost: GPL-incompatible module openafs.ko uses GPL-only symbol 
> 'tasklist_lock'
>
> Is there a fix for this?

Yes. 1.4.3rc2 has it.