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From: "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@novell.com>
To: "Dave Jones" <davej@redhat.com>, "Andi Kleen" <ak@suse.de>
Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] prevent nested panic from soft lockup detection
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 14:46:51 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <43DF785B.76F0.0078.0@novell.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <p73fyn4mv7d.fsf@verdi.suse.de>

>> I've been wondering for a while why we don't just make touch_nmi_watchdog
>> do an implicit call to touch_softlockup_watchdog.  I can't think of a situation
>> where we'd want to do one but not the other, and adding patches like this
>> seems to be an uphill battle (I know at least two other places that need
>> this off the top of my head).
>
>Very good idea.
>
>Someone did it already in the SUSE kernel and it helped considerably
>there.

Actually, plain 2.6.15 already has this (for i386 and x86-64 at least). Hence the first of the two hunks the patch
consists of is superfluous. The second hunk, however, is still necessary (as there's no pre-existing
touch_nmi_watchdog() call there, and there also shouldn't be one as interrupts get re-enabled before getting there).

Jan

  reply	other threads:[~2006-01-31 13:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <43DDE5A1.76F0.0078.0@novell.com.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
     [not found] ` <20060130145850.GB9752@redhat.com.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
2006-01-31 12:35   ` [PATCH] prevent nested panic from soft lockup detection Andi Kleen
2006-01-31 13:46     ` Jan Beulich [this message]
2006-01-30  9:08 Jan Beulich
2006-01-30 14:58 ` Dave Jones

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