Re: [PATCH] Export touch_nmi_watchdog

From: Andrew Morton (akpm@osdl.org)
Date: Tue Aug 05 2003 - 14:38:11 EST


Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> wrote:
>
> Sometimes drivers do long things with interrupt off and the NMI watchdog
> triggers quickly. This mostly happens in error handling. It would be
> better to fix the drivers to sleep in this case, but it's not always
> possible or too much work.

yup.

Do we need an mdelay_while_touching_nmi_watchdog() variant?
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/



This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Thu Aug 07 2003 - 22:00:30 EST