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From: Matt Ayres <matta@tektonic.net>
To: Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Cc: Ian Pratt <m+Ian.Pratt@cl.cam.ac.uk>, xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
Subject: Re: kernel BUG look familiar?
Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 11:13:54 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4443B0B2.2000501@tektonic.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1FUgLf-00010V-00@mta1.cl.cam.ac.uk>



Keir Fraser wrote:

> 
> There's a 5-second pause the first time negative segment offsets are
> used, to provide a clear warning to the user. The softlockup watchdog
> is supposed to kick in after 10 seconds, so something here is a bit
> confused. It's probably that mdelay() is delaying more than a
> second. It's a software delay loop which we really ought to replace
> with something better (HYPERVISOR_poll is the obvious candidate).
> 
> The issue can be worked around by calling touch_softlockup_watchdog()
> in the 5-second delay loop in arch/i386/kernel/fixup.c.
> 

Thanks for the quick fix Keir!

  reply	other threads:[~2006-04-17 15:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-04-14 21:12 kernel BUG look familiar? Ian Pratt
2006-04-15  8:41 ` Keir Fraser
2006-04-17 15:13   ` Matt Ayres [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-04-14 19:54 Matt Ayres
2006-04-17 19:58 ` David F. Barrera
2006-04-17 20:09   ` Matt Ayres

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