Spinlock timeout failure

[Andrew Luis Arruza]

One of our boxes (K270, HP-UX 11.0) crashed and rebooted this morning.
The OLDsyslog shows:
vmunix: Spinlock timeout failure.

The /etc/shutdownlog shows:
Reboot after panic: Spinlock deadlock!

I need help on this one. I do not know what "Spinlock" is.

Any/all help greatly appreciated. Points WILL be assigned--as always.
Thanks,
Andy

[melvyn burnard · Accepted solution]

A Spinlock failure is when a processor is spinning on something and fails to release th elock. It is NOT normally the spinlock code, but sometyhing else

I would recommend you get your HP Response Centre to analyxze this as they can be difficult

[Vincenzo Restuccia]

See http://docs.hp.com/cgi-bin/otsearch/getfile?id=/hpux/onlinedocs/os/KCparam.SpinLockParms.html&searchterms=Spinlock&queryid=20010419-071717

[AFI HP-UX ADMIN]

We just experienced this last weekend. An analysis of the crash dump showed that accessive LPMC I-CACHE errors caused this. The suggested fix from HP was to replace the processor.