From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: mulyadi.santosa@gmail.com (Mulyadi Santosa) Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2011 00:32:09 +0700 Subject: Interpreting call trace In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org List-Id: kernelnewbies.lists.kernelnewbies.org Hi Daniel... On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 19:56, Daniel Baluta wrote: > Hello, > > I have the following stack trace: > > [3992.172/0] BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 61s! [events/0:39] alright, so we see soft lockup here.... so that means your machine is not entirely frozen, right? If that's true, then I think this entire call trace try to show that there is lock contention somewhere along the trace...very likely something grab a lock too long in fast path... -- regards, Mulyadi Santosa Freelance Linux trainer and consultant blog: the-hydra.blogspot.com training: mulyaditraining.blogspot.com