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Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 16:55:05 +0100
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
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       Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net>
Subject: Re: Prevent softlockup triggering in nvidiafb
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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.