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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: arjan@infradead.org, pbadari@us.ibm.com, dhowells@redhat.com,
	torvalds@osdl.org, suparna@in.ibm.com, linux-aio@kvack.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rwsem: Make rwsems use interrupt disabling spinlocks
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 02:07:17 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050311020717.46794d94.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050311094024.GC19954@elte.hu>

Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
>
> 
> * Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> wrote:
> 
> > > Ingo, we already have a touch_nmi_watchdog() in the sysrq code.  It might be
> > > worth adding a touch_softlockup_watchdog() wherever we have a
> > > touch_nmi_watchdog().
> > 
> > ....or add touch_softlockup_watchdog to touch_nmi_watchdog() instead
> > and rename it tickle_watchdog() overtime.
> 
> you mean like:
> 
> +extern void touch_softlockup_watchdog(void);
> 
> in:
> 
>  http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.11/2.6.11-mm2/broken-out/detect-soft-lockups.patch
> 
> ?
> 

Nope.

This particular lockup happened because a huge stream of stuff was sent to
the serial console.

We already have a touch_nmi_watchdog() in that code.

We should arrange for touch_softlockup_watchdog() to be called whenever
touch_nmi_watchdog() is called.


  reply	other threads:[~2005-03-11 10:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20050308170107.231a145c.akpm@osdl.org>
     [not found] ` <1110327267.24286.139.camel@dyn318077bld.beaverton.ibm.com>
     [not found]   ` <18744.1110364438@redhat.com>
2005-03-09 11:04     ` aio stress panic on 2.6.11-mm1 Suparna Bhattacharya
2005-03-09 11:05       ` Andrew Morton
2005-03-09 11:07       ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-03-09 11:17         ` Andi Kleen
2005-03-09 11:28         ` Andrew Morton
2005-03-09 11:59         ` David Howells
2005-03-09 12:12         ` [PATCH] rwsem: Make rwsems use interrupt disabling spinlocks David Howells
2005-03-09 17:35           ` Badari Pulavarty
2005-03-09 19:18             ` Badari Pulavarty
2005-03-09 19:16           ` Badari Pulavarty
2005-03-09 19:42             ` Andrew Morton
2005-03-09 20:10               ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-03-11  9:40                 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-03-11 10:07                   ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2005-03-11 10:25                     ` Ingo Molnar
2005-03-09 11:10       ` aio stress panic on 2.6.11-mm1 Arjan van de Ven
2005-03-09 11:21         ` Andi Kleen
2005-03-09 14:48           ` Suparna Bhattacharya
2005-03-09 11:11       ` Andi Kleen
2005-03-09 21:58       ` David Howells

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