From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Allow softlockup to be runtime disabled.
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 14:03:48 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070612180348.GB30839@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1181648985.7348.305.camel@twins>
On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 01:49:45PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-06-11 at 23:13 -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
> > It's useful sometimes to disable the softlockup checker at boottime.
> > Especially if it triggers during a distro install.
>
> Should we not rather fix these occurrences?
We do, but we can't easily fix the kernel that ends up on
install media. It's easier to tell a user
"boot with nosoftlockup, then update your kernel after its installed"
than it is to guide them through reconstructing an ISO with
an updated kernel.
Dave
--
http://www.codemonkey.org.uk
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2007-06-12 3:13 Allow softlockup to be runtime disabled Dave Jones
2007-06-12 11:49 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-06-12 18:03 ` Dave Jones [this message]
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