The system is unresponsive with "emcpd" process locked on "PxEventsLock"
Issue
The system has locked up and became unresponsive. Intentionally initiated crash dump shows the following call trace on one of the processors:
PID: 3047 TASK: ffff81043c85d820 CPU: 1 COMMAND: "emcpd"
#0 [ffff81010efaef20] crash_nmi_callback at ffffffff8007c21a
#1 [ffff81010efaef40] do_nmi at ffffffff800658e5
#2 [ffff81010efaef50] nmi at ffffffff80064ecf
[exception RIP: .text.lock.spinlock+0xe]
RIP: ffffffff80064be8 RSP: ffff81042e11fec8 RFLAGS: 00000086
RAX: 0000000000000206 RBX: ffff810430611288 RCX: ffffffff884414f8
RDX: 000000000000324b RSI: 0000000000000206 RDI: ffffffff88462000
RBP: ffffffff884414c8 R8: ffff81042e11e000 R9: 0000000000000000
R10: ffffffff88441578 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 000000000000ca0f
R13: 0000000000037528 R14: ffff81043c6152e8 R15: ffff81043c6153b0
ORIG_RAX: ffffffffffffffff CS: 0010 SS: 0018
--- <NMI exception stack> ---
#3 [ffff81042e11fec8] .text.lock.spinlock at ffffffff80064be8 (via _spin_lock_irqsave)
#4 [ffff81042e11fec8] PxIocmdWfseWakeup at ffffffff883c9e80 [emcp]
#5 [ffff81042e11fed8] PowerTimerCallout at ffffffff883cbc37 [emcp]
#6 [ffff81042e11ff08] PowerServiceDaemonQ at ffffffff883d522d [emcp]
#7 [ffff81042e11ff48] kernel_thread at ffffffff8005dfb1
Environment
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
EMC PowerPath
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