Re: SMP spin_lock...

From: Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@suse.de)
Date: Tue Feb 15 2000 - 11:45:34 EST

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On Tue, 15 Feb 2000, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:

>The 2.3 kernel's NMI lockup watchdog already detects spinlock deadlocks
>well enough, [..]

It can't detect spin_lock() deadlock.

Andrea

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