[Lustre-discuss] Kernel bug in combination with bonding

[Isaac Huang]

On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 12:57:27PM +0200, Tom Woezel wrote:
>    ......
>    Jun 16 04:33:38 sososd1 kernel: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#2 stuck for 10s!
>    ......
>    Jun 16 04:33:38 sososd1 kernel: Call Trace:
>    Jun 16 04:33:38 sososd1 kernel:  <IRQ>  [<ffffffff883f0477>]
>    :bonding:ad_rx_machine+0x20/0x502
>    Jun 16 04:33:38 sososd1 kernel:  [<ffffffff883f0aa2>]
>    :bonding:bond_3ad_lacpdu_recv+0xc1/0x1fc

It seemed that this bug has been fixed in a recent Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 5.3 kernel security and bug fix update, not sure whether it has
been picked up by CentOS or not:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=457300
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0225.html

Isaac