RHEL6: System hung trying to obtain lock in __wake_up()
Issue
- Our customer encountered a kernel stall.
- System experienced an unplanned outage and rebooted taking a vmcore due to the watchdog timer expiring.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1
- kernel-2.6.32-131.12.1.el6.x86_64
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