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From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Allow softlockup to be runtime disabled.
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 23:13:54 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070612031354.GA18471@redhat.com> (raw)

It's useful sometimes to disable the softlockup checker at boottime.
Especially if it triggers during a distro install.

Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>

--- linux-2.6/init/main.c~	2006-03-05 00:45:51.000000000 -0500
+++ linux-2.6/init/main.c	2006-03-05 00:49:41.000000000 -0500
@@ -732,6 +732,15 @@ static void __init do_basic_setup(void)
 	do_initcalls();
 }
 
+static int __initdata nosoftlockup;
+
+static int __init nosoftlockup_setup(char *str)
+{
+	nosoftlockup = 1;
+	return 1;
+}
+__setup("nosoftlockup", nosoftlockup_setup);
+
 static void __init do_pre_smp_initcalls(void)
 {
 	extern int spawn_ksoftirqd(void);
@@ -649,7 +657,8 @@ static void do_pre_smp_initcalls(void)
 	migration_init();
 #endif
 	spawn_ksoftirqd();
-	spawn_softlockup_task();
+	if (!nosoftlockup)
+		spawn_softlockup_task();
 }
 
 static void run_init_process(char *init_filename)

-- 
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             reply	other threads:[~2007-06-12  3:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-06-12  3:13 Dave Jones [this message]
2007-06-12 11:49 ` Allow softlockup to be runtime disabled Peter Zijlstra
2007-06-12 18:03   ` Dave Jones

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