Bug 731916 - kernel crash
Summary: kernel crash
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Status: CLOSED INSUFFICIENT_DATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Classification: Red Hat
Component: kernel
Version: 6.0
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
unspecified
high
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Prarit Bhargava
QA Contact: Red Hat Kernel QE team
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-08-19 04:28 UTC by tirupathi
Modified: 2011-09-29 12:32 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2011-09-29 12:32:20 UTC
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Description tirupathi 2011-08-19 04:28:02 UTC 
Description of problem:while installing a third party device driver for allocating DMA of size 4 GB from 23GB location of 32 GB RAM, where os is of 22 GB allocation. Same thing is working in RHEL 5.0.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):kernel version : 2.6.32


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Comment 2 tirupathi 2011-08-19 04:35:20 UTC 
error: kernel crash
BUG: soft lockup-CPU#2
stuck for 61s![insmod:3539]


Description of problem:while installing a third party device driver for
allocating DMA of size 4 GB from 23GB location of 32 GB RAM, where os is of 22
GB allocation. Same thing is working in RHEL 5.0.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):kernel version :
2.6.32
Comment 3 Prarit Bhargava 2011-08-26 15:26:13 UTC 
Could you please provide the full text of the lockup?

Thanks,

P.
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