Hi, Thank you for your comment.
> This panic report falls in the category "how hard can I break my system as > root". > Explicitly abusing the system performing restricted calls depletes resources > and > harasses the sw lock (in this case). The reason that the driver attempts to > wait that > long is that in the case of ESB2 systems, the SPI interface to the EEPROM can > be slow, > thus taking a long time to complete certain commands. This problem originally occurred in a very large cluster system using snmp for server management. About two servers panicked each day. The program I sent is to reproduce this problem in a very short time. It does occur under normal load when there is a lot of servers. -- Kenzo Iwami ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html