From: Amerigo Wang <amwang@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: Kdump Failed with 2.6.31 i386 Date: Fri, 09 Oct 2009 15:44:53 +0800 > CAI Qian wrote: >> Hallo! >> Is it a known issue that kdump failed with 2.6.31 i386 systems? The >> kdump kernel seems hang here. >> ... >> Spurious LAPIC timer interrupt on cpu 0 >> Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 >> console handover: boot [earlyser0] -> real [ttyS0] >> Lock dependency validator: Copyright (c) 2006 Red Hat, Inc., Ingo Molnar >> ... MAX_LOCKDEP_SUBCLASSES: 8 >> ... MAX_LOCK_DEPTH: 48 >> ... MAX_LOCKDEP_KEYS: 8191 >> ... CLASSHASH_SIZE: 4096 >> ... MAX_LOCKDEP_ENTRIES: 16384 >> ... MAX_LOCKDEP_CHAINS: 32768 >> ... CHAINHASH_SIZE: 16384 >> memory used by lock dependency info: 3743 kB >> per task-struct memory footprint: 1920 bytes >> HPET: 3 timers in total, 0 timers will be used for per-cpu timer >> Clocksource tsc unstable (delta = 577041676100 ns) >> > > > This case hangs on setup_irq(0, &irq0). We already knew this. This has been seen on 3 HP and 1 DELL servers. > >> or >> Spurious LAPIC timer interrupt on cpu 0 >> Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 >> console [ttyS0] enabled >> Lock dependency validator: Copyright (c) 2006 Red Hat, Inc., Ingo Molnar >> ... MAX_LOCKDEP_SUBCLASSES: 8 >> ... MAX_LOCK_DEPTH: 48 >> ... MAX_LOCKDEP_KEYS: 8191 >> ... CLASSHASH_SIZE: 4096 >> ... MAX_LOCKDEP_ENTRIES: 16384 >> ... MAX_LOCKDEP_CHAINS: 32768 >> ... CHAINHASH_SIZE: 16384 >> memory used by lock dependency info: 3743 kB >> per task-struct memory footprint: 1920 bytes >> allocated 2621440 bytes of page_cgroup >> please try 'cgroup_disable=memory' option if you don't want memory >> cgroups >> Calibrating delay loop (skipped), value calculated using timer >> frequency.. 5986.01 BogoMIPS (lpj=2993008) > > This case hangs after calibrate_delay() which already passed > late_time_init(), and probably before security_init()... > (since probably you have CONFIG_SECURITY=y) > This has been observed on a NEC server. Thanks! CAI Qian > Did you meet these two cases on the same machine? Or on different > machines? > > Thanks. > >