[OpenAFS-devel] Re: System lockup with do_IRQ: stack overflow (SOMEWHAT RESOLVED)

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Mon, 26 Feb 2007, Deon George wrote:

> Gang,
>
> I was under the suspicion that it was the atrpm build of the openafs kernel 
> module that was causing my systems to lock up with do_IRQ: stack overflow.
>
> To test this, I removed the openafs kernel module on my FC6 system (which was 
> sourced from atrpms) and built the openafs 1.4.2 module myself (rpmbuild 
> --rebuild openafs-1.4.2-rhel4.1.src.rpm --define "build_modules 1") . I've 
> been hammering the machine all day with the new module and it hasnt missed a 
> beat. :) I've only been testing for a few hours - but it is a good sign - the 
> machine would normally lockup within a few minutes...
>
> I want to do the same thing to my RHEL5 system (to be absolutely sure that it 
> is atrpms compilation that is my problem) - but I cant get the kernel module 
> to build - the build keeps failing with:
>
> FATAL: modpost: GPL-incompatible module openafs.ko uses GPL-only symbol 
> 'tasklist_lock'


Can we have output of the configure test?