On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 12:08 PM, Wolf Dapp <[email protected]> wrote:
> Am 22.05.2015 um 16:29 schrieb George N. White III: > > Have you seen > > <http://lists.opensuse.org/archive/opensuse-bugs/2014-06/msg01135.html>? > > What kernel version are you running? > > Hello George, > > thanks for your response. I had indeed not seen this particular bug > report. My searches had revealed plenty of such "soft lockup" problems, > but most of them apparently related to hardware. Alas, as in other bug > reports, no actual reason or patch was mentioned in this one, except > that the error no longer appears in kernel 3.15. > > I am indeed running kernel 3.11.10-29-desktop. Unfortunately, I won't be > able to try 3.15 for a while... > The patch looks simple: http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git/commit/fs/nfs/pagelist.c?id=92a56555bd576c61b27a5cab9f38a33a1e9a1df5 You could prepare a kernel with the patch and next time a system crashes boot it with the patched kernel. > > > A "kernel BUG" needs to be fixed in the kernel, but of course some > > kernel bugs are triggered by buggy user/library code. > > Since the error is quite reproducible by interrupting a parallel HDF5 > write (and has not happened to me under any other circumstance), I was > thinking that it may have to do with HDF5, and that other HDF5 users may > have encountered it. > > Cheers, > Wolf > > -- > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Hdf-forum is for HDF software users discussion. > [email protected] > http://lists.hdfgroup.org/mailman/listinfo/hdf-forum_lists.hdfgroup.org > Twitter: https://twitter.com/hdf5 > -- George N. White III <[email protected]> Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia
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