On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 03:52:47PM -0800, Kaz Kylheku wrote: > From time to time, on 2.6.17.7, I see a deadlock situation go off. The > soft lockup tick occurs in the middle of do_futex, which is heavily > inlined. The system is actually hosed; it's not one of those > recoverable CPU busy situations that can sometimes trigger the lockup > detector. Can you reproduce thing hang also if you're not running in a binary compat mode, that is either running o32 binaries on a 32-bit kernel or 64-bit binaries on a 64-bit kernel? Ralf