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Date:	Thu, 28 Dec 2006 13:56:26 +0100
From:	Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@...pl>
To:	Ben Greear <greearb@...delatech.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] igmp: spin_lock_bh in timer (Re: BUG: soft lockup detected on CPU#0!)

On Wed, Dec 27, 2006 at 08:16:10AM -0800, Ben Greear wrote:
...
> The system hangs and does not recover (well, a few processes
> continue on the other processor for a few minutes before they
> too deadlock...)
> 
> I am guessing this problem has been around for a while, but it
> is only triggered when interfaces are created, and probably only
> when UDP traffic is already running heavily on the system.  Most
> systems w/out virtual devices will not trigger this sort of
> race.

Considering your contribution into kernel,
many people here would like to help, I hope,
but these informations are probably not enough.

Maybe some more logs & dmesg? If it deadlocks
anyway, maybe adding panic() after dump_stack()
could tell something.

Jarek P.
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