vmware guest crash spinlock lockup - bugzilla-able ?

Gilboa Davara gilboad at gmail.com
Thu Jan 11 20:29:59 UTC 2007


On Tue, 2007-01-09 at 23:40 +1100, David Timms wrote:
> {Reposting to fedora-list rather than fedora-test-list, oops}
> 
> Hi, I have some machines:
> pc1: dell sc430   , 1GB, raid 1 software, intel x86_64 kernel
> pc2: shuttle xcube, 1GB, raid 1 software, intel i686 kernel
> os1+2: fc6 +updated 2007-01-04, vmware-server-1.0.1
> 
> Both machines run two vmware-guests:
> 1: fc6 +updated 2007-01-04, samba server, winbind
> 2: fc6 +updated 2007-01-04, dns, dhcp, openldap.
> All real and guest vms are running kernel-2.6.18-1.2868.fc6 #1 SMP
> After about 48 hours, pc1-vm1 crashed, restarted and still OK. 3 days.
> Today I have found that pc2-vm1 and pc2-vm2 have crashed.
> 
> Message left on pc2:vm2 screen summary:
>   worker_thread
>   kthread
>   kthread
>   kernel_thread
> =====
> BUG: spinlock lockup on CPU#0, modprobe/13636  (Not tainted)
>   dump_trace
>   show_trace_log_lvl
>   show_trace
>   dump_stack
>   _raw_spin_lock
>   cache_alloc_refill
>   kmem_cache_alloc
>   get_empty_filp
>   __path_lookup_open
>   open_name
>   do_filp_open
>   do_sys_open
>   sys_open
>   syscall_call
> DWARF2 unwinder stuck at syscall_call
> Leftover inexact backtrace:
> =====
> 
> the visible part of the trace with the other vm is different, but 
> mentions the
> same spinlock and DWARF messages.
> 
> The server and vm guests have quite a few services either disabled or 
> removed,
> to reduce overall machine load.
> 
> Is this an issue that needs to be fixed/reported to bugzilla.redhat ?
> Or is there another bug report location that would be best.
> 
> DaveT.
> 

In general, if you didn't enable the vmware services (and as a result,
you guest's kernel is not tainted), yes.
The lock itself seems to be vmware-free.

- Gilboa




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