Re: [patch] fix the softlockup watchdog to actually work

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Thu Jul 19 2007 - 03:48:26 EST



* Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > [this is -stable material too.]
>
> This seems terribly sensitive.
>
> Someone has broken the Vaio (shock, horror). It now has mysterious
> jerkiness: when leaning on autorepeat it stalls for maybe 0.25 seconds
> every 1.5 seconds. The stalls are far less than a second. Yet this
> is enough to trigger random softlockup warnings.
>
> Some of those warnings are below. Note that the traces are all pretty
> useless, as softlockup warnings so often seem to be.

hm, you havent picked up the other softlockup enhancements i did, which
make the warnings more useful.

Ingo
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