From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 1/4] Ignore stolen time in the softlockup watchdog
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 10:51:35 -0700
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Andrew Morton wrote:
> It seems fairly sensitive to .config settings.  See
> http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/config-sony.txt
>   

I haven't tried your config yet, but I haven't managed to reproduce it
by playing with the usual suspects in my config (SMP, PREEMPT).  Any
idea about which config changes make the difference?

Hm, is it caused by using sched_clock() to generate the printk
timestamps while generating the lock test output?

    J