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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: TAMUKI Shoichi <tamuki@linet.gr.jp>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>, Andy Green <andy@warmcat.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] panic: keep blinking in spite of long spin timer mode
Date: Sun, 30 May 2010 08:55:22 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100530065522.GA14556@basil.fritz.box> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201005282211.AA00413@tamuki.linet.gr.jp>

> Therefore, I changed to call panic_blink_enter() between every mdelay.
> The default time calls to mdelay is 1ms.  If the kernel parameter
> panic_longspin is set to true, it will be switched to 240ms and the
> maximum speed of blinking will be automatically limited slower due to
> the granularity of the blinking time.

Thanks for this explanation, makes all sense. 
But should do these changes by default then, not with a parameter.

Changing the frequency is ok, the only requirement is that it is
visible and different from the frequency kdb uses.

-Andi

  reply	other threads:[~2010-05-30  6:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-05-27 21:56 [PATCH] panic: keep blinking in spite of long spin timer mode TAMUKI Shoichi
2010-05-28  9:13 ` Andi Kleen
2010-05-28 22:11   ` TAMUKI Shoichi
2010-05-30  6:55     ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2010-06-02 21:57       ` TAMUKI Shoichi
2010-05-28 22:22 ` Randy Dunlap
2010-05-30 21:58   ` TAMUKI Shoichi
2010-06-02 18:34 ` Andrew Morton
2010-06-03 21:49   ` TAMUKI Shoichi

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