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From: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: 2.6.24 BUG: soft lockup - CPU#X
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 11:33:40 +0100
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On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 01:26:00PM -0700, Matheos Worku wrote:
...
> nsn57-110 login: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#2 stuck for 11s!  
...
> Call Trace:
> [<ffffffff803ef5f6>] __skb_clone+0x24/0xdc
> [<ffffffff803f152e>] skb_realloc_headroom+0x30/0x63
> [<ffffffff882edd40>] :niu:niu_start_xmit+0x114/0x5af
> [<ffffffff80221995>] gart_map_single+0x0/0x70
> [<ffffffff803f5e2b>] dev_hard_start_xmit+0x1d2/0x246
...

Maybe I'm wrong with this again, but I wonder about this gart_map_single
on almost all traces, and probably not supposed to be seen here. Did you
try with some memory re-config/debugging?

Regards,
Jarek P.