Hi! I am getting soft lockup detected when multipathd starts when running 2.6.14 with the patches from ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/dm/patches/2.6-unstable/editing-quilt/patches/ Running a plain 2.6.14 without them makes the problem go away. Should those patches work on a 2.6.14 or? traceback is: Starting multipath daemon: multipathd. BUG: soft lockup detected on CPU#0! Pid: 4533, comm: multipathd EIP: 0060:[<c01108df>] CPU: 0 EIP is at smp_call_function+0xaa/0x151 EFLAGS: 00000297 Not tainted (2.6.14-dm-ican) EAX: 00000000 EBX: 00000001 ECX: 00000000 EDX: 000c08fb ESI: 00000001 EDI: f896a000 EBP: f72e3e78 DS: 007b ES: 007b CR0: 8005003b CR2: 080a0000 CR3: 3789e000 CR4: 000006d0 [<c0101116>] show_regs+0x15b/0x185 [<c013ea8c>] softlockup_tick+0x77/0x89 [<c0125fd4>] do_timer+0x42/0x10f [<c0107868>] timer_interrupt+0x35/0x82 [<c013ec63>] handle_IRQ_event+0x3e/0x71 [<c013ed20>] __do_IRQ+0x8a/0xea [<c0104f03>] do_IRQ+0x33/0x5e [<c01037c2>] common_interrupt+0x1a/0x20 [<c01107e7>] flush_tlb_all+0x2a/0x38 [<c0156335>] unmap_vm_area+0x7d/0x9c [<c0156739>] __remove_vm_area+0x2f/0x56 [<c015677c>] remove_vm_area+0x1c/0x30 [<c01567af>] __vunmap+0x1f/0xf4 [<c01568ad>] vfree+0x29/0x35 [<f882de59>] free_params+0x11/0x13 [dm_mod] [<f882e02f>] ctl_ioctl+0xbc/0x130 [dm_mod] [<c01736ea>] do_ioctl+0x7a/0x83 [<c017387f>] vfs_ioctl+0x5c/0x1ea [<c0173a79>] sys_ioctl+0x6c/0x7b [<c0102d7d>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb -- Ake Sandgren, HPC2N, Umea University, S-90187 Umea, Sweden Internet: ake@xxxxxxxxxxxx Phone: +46 90 7866134 Fax: +46 90 7866126 Mobile: +46 70 7716134 WWW: http://www.hpc2n.umu.se -- dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel