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From: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>,
	akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: tickle nmi watchdog whilst doing serial writes.
Date: Sun, 15 May 2005 13:07:42 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050515130742.A29619@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1u0l4afdx.fsf@muc.de>; from ak@muc.de on Sun, May 15, 2005 at 01:38:02PM +0200

On Sun, May 15, 2005 at 01:38:02PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> writes:
> >  
> >  #include <asm/io.h>
> >  #include <asm/irq.h>
> > @@ -2099,8 +2100,10 @@ static inline void wait_for_xmitr(struct
> >  	if (up->port.flags & UPF_CONS_FLOW) {
> >  		tmout = 1000000;
> >  		while (--tmout &&
> > -		       ((serial_in(up, UART_MSR) & UART_MSR_CTS) == 0))
> > +		       ((serial_in(up, UART_MSR) & UART_MSR_CTS) == 0)) {
> >  			udelay(1);
> > +			touch_nmi_watchdog();
> 
> Note that touch_nmi_watchdog is not exported on i386 - Linus vetoed
> that some time ago. The real fix of course is to use schedule_timeout(),
> but that might break printk() with interrupts off :/

Not to mention printk() from atomic contexts and panic().  No,
schedule_timeout() is _not_ a "real fix" but a kludge.

-- 
Russell King
 Linux kernel    2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
 maintainer of:  2.6 Serial core

  reply	other threads:[~2005-05-15 12:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-05-13 18:48 tickle nmi watchdog whilst doing serial writes Dave Jones
2005-05-13 19:14 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-05-13 19:23   ` Dave Jones
2005-05-13 19:37   ` Russell King
2005-05-14  6:43 ` Andrew Morton
2005-05-14  6:57   ` Dave Jones
2005-05-14  7:07     ` Andrew Morton
2005-05-14 10:31       ` Ed Tomlinson
2005-05-14 10:53         ` Alexander Nyberg
2005-05-15 11:40           ` Andi Kleen
2005-05-14 10:53         ` Ed Tomlinson
2005-05-15 11:38 ` Andi Kleen
2005-05-15 12:07   ` Russell King [this message]
2005-05-15 12:20     ` Andi Kleen
2005-05-15 14:01       ` Russell King
2005-05-15 14:03         ` Andi Kleen
2005-05-19  0:24       ` George Anzinger
2005-05-19  7:33         ` Russell King
2005-05-23 20:20           ` Bill Davidsen

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