From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753811AbXC0Lmd (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Mar 2007 07:42:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753817AbXC0Lmd (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Mar 2007 07:42:33 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:53677 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753811AbXC0Lmd (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Mar 2007 07:42:33 -0400 Message-ID: <460902CF.1030202@redhat.com> Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 07:41:03 -0400 From: Prarit Bhargava User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070221) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, clalance@redhat.com, mingo@redhat.com, davej@redhat.com, Thilo.Cestonaro.external@fujitsu-siemens.com Subject: Re: [PATCH]: Fix bogus softlockup warning with sysrq-t References: <20070315132247.11291.28827.sendpatchset@prarit.boston.redhat.com> <4608AF01.4060804@goop.org> In-Reply-To: <4608AF01.4060804@goop.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > I have another pair of softlockup patches in which I try to address: > > * ignoring time stolen by hypervisors > * threads going to sleep tickless for long periods of time > > I'm looking at the code now. Your solution is definately better :) > I could easy add a "global disable" function, which would allow long > sysrq messages, and it would help Thilo with his long flash update freezes. > > I think that's a good idea -- I'll propose an add on patch to fix the sysrq-t case ... P. > J >