On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 08:25:05AM +0200, Thomas Prokosch wrote:
> Since the big XFS refacturing, kernels tend to hang on one particular 
> machine. It is not a hardware problem, since the very same machine works 
> flawlessly with the very same configuration, by just using an older 
> (<=2.6.26) kernel.
> 
> Especially bad in this respect is the latest 2.6.38 as given in the email 
> subject: The problem appears right after the reboot. I am filing this bug 
> report on linux-image-2.6.37-1-686 which also shows hangs but only 1-2 times 
> per week.
> 
> In order to isolate this bug, I am attending the kernel log for two distinct 
> hangs (with a reboot in between) and disk information. I suspect that the 
> problem occurs only on special types of disks, as I run almost the same 
> configuration on multiple machines (same kernel, XFS formatted disks with the 
> same XFS format version, same partitioning, etc.) without having any problems.
> 

I remember seeing a quite similar hang on 2.6.38 on a xftest run. please submit 
upstream on bugzilla.kernel.org
and let us know the bug nr.

thank you.

-- 
maks



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