From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net>
Subject: Re: Prevent softlockup triggering in nvidiafb
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 12:18:48 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070423161848.GA27649@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070423165505.4aecd186@the-village.bc.nu>
On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 04:55:05PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Apr 2007 11:36:30 -0400
> Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> > If the chip locks up, we get into a long polling loop,
> > where the softlockup detector kicks in.
> > See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=151878
> > for an example.
>
> Surely in this situation the softlockup report and trap out is precisely
> what should be occurring.
We can't do anything useful with the trace. It already prints out
info that the hardware locked up.
Dave
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http://www.codemonkey.org.uk
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-23 16:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-23 15:36 Dave Jones
2007-04-23 15:55 ` Alan Cox
2007-04-23 16:18 ` Dave Jones [this message]
2007-04-23 23:06 ` Antonino A. Daplas
2007-04-23 16:05 ` Antonino A. Daplas
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