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
>
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