From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: daniel.baluta@gmail.com (Daniel Baluta)
Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2011 17:15:18 +0300
Subject: show_regs vs dump_stack in watchdog_timer_fn
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To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
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Hello,

Why the stack isn't always dumped in watchdog_timer_fn ([1])?

Registers content is useful, but without a stack trace it's very
hard to find the task which caused system softlockup.


thanks,
Daniel.

[1] http://lxr.linux.no/linux+v2.6.39/kernel/watchdog.c#L292