Re: [stable] Soft lockups since stable kernel upgrade to 2.6.23.8

[Greg KH]

On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 09:39:19PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > > but we only have cpu_clock() from v2.6.23 onwards - so we should not 
> > > apply the original patch to v2.6.22. (we should not have applied 
> > > your patch that started the mess to begin with - but that's another 
> > > matter.)
> > 
> > Well, I can easily back that one out, if that is easier than adding 2 
> > more patches to try to fix up the mess here.
> > 
> > Let me know if you feel that would be best.
> 
> i'd leave it alone - doing that we have in essence the softlockup 
> detector turned off. Reverting to the older version might trigger false 
> positives that need the new stuff.

Ok, I'll see if the current round of patches fix up everyone complaints
:)

thanks for sending these,

greg k-h
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