From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Keir Fraser <keir@xen.org>
Subject: Re: NMI: Enable watchdog by default
Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2012 17:11:57 +0000
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On 07/03/2012 16:55, "Andrew Cooper" <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com> wrote:

> This patch is based on one which has been in XenServer for a very long.
> 
> To keep the trend of documentation going, it also corrects the new
> command line document.

This does not only enable the watchdog by default, but also changes the
timeout from 5 seconds to 5 *minutes*!

Even if that is a good idea in some cases, we'd at least have to make the
timeout configurable. Developers will not appreciate having to wait for 5
minutes for their lockups to produce useful trace output.

 -- Keir