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Bug 651818

Summary:	[5.5] Hangs up during booting due to a spinlock problem. [rhel-5.5.z]
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5	Reporter:	RHEL Program Management <pm-rhel>
Component:	kernel	Assignee:	Jiri Pirko <jpirko>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Red Hat Kernel QE team <kernel-qe>
Severity:	high	Docs Contact:
Priority:	high
Version:	5.5	CC:	asit.k.mallick, cww, dhoward, eguan, hisaki.ohara, jane.lv, jpirko, jvillalo, ltroan, luyu, lwoodman, mmatsuya, moshiro, myamazak, nmurray, peterm, pm-eus, prarit, pzijlstr, rkhan, skito, tao, tindoh, tmuneda, vgoyal, yyamazak
Target Milestone:	rc	Keywords:	ZStream
Target Release:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Fixed In Version:	kernel-2.6.18-194.29.1.el5	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Last Closed:	2011-01-04 16:55:31 UTC	Type:	---
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oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
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Bug Depends On:	634454
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Description RHEL Program Management 2010-11-10 11:31:41 UTC

This bug has been copied from bug #634454 and has been proposed
to be backported to 5.5 z-stream (EUS).

Comment 3 Jiri Pirko 2010-11-29 12:11:16 UTC

in kernel-2.6.18-194.29.1.el5

linux-2.6-misc-kernel-remove-yield-from-stop_machine-paths.patch
linux-2.6-kernel-add-stop_machine-barrier-to-fix-lock-contention.patch

Comment 5 Eryu Guan 2010-12-27 08:32:20 UTC

Reboot 500 times on intel-s3e36-01.rhts.eng.rdu.redhat.com on -194.32.1 kernel with no hang, but unable to reproduce on -194 kernel. Patch has been tested by FJ, confirmed patches are applied in kernel 2.6.18-194.32.1.el5 correctly. Set SanityOnly.

Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2011-01-04 16:55:31 UTC

An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0004.html