7.2-release/amd64: panic, spin lock held too long

[Dan Naumov]

On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 12:32 AM, Attilio Rao <attilio at freebsd.org> wrote:
> 2009/7/7 Dan Naumov <dan.naumov at gmail.com>:
>> I just got a panic following by a reboot a few seconds after running
>> "portsnap update", /var/log/messages shows the following:
>>
>> Jul  7 03:49:38 atom syslogd: kernel boot file is /boot/kernel/kernel
>> Jul  7 03:49:38 atom kernel: spin lock 0xffffffff80b3edc0 (sched lock
>> 1) held by 0xffffff00017d8370 (tid 100054) too long
>> Jul  7 03:49:38 atom kernel: panic: spin lock held too long
>>
>> /var/crash looks empty. This is a system running official 7.2-p1
>> binaries since I am using freebsd-update to keep up with the patches
>> (just updated to -p2 after this panic) running with very low load,
>> mostly serving files to my home network over Samba and running a few
>> irssi instances in a screen. What do I need to do to catch more
>> information if/when this happens again?
>
> Dan, is that machine equipped with Hyperthreading?
>
> Attilio

Yes. It's an Intel Atom 330, which is a dualcore CPU with HT (4 cores
visible in "top" as a result)

- Dan