Re: Prevent softlockup triggering in nvidiafb

[Antonino A. Daplas]

> 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@xxxxxxxxxx> 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.

And when nvidiafb detects a lockup, it will go to safe mode. Better than
rebooting, I think.

Tony



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