Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 6 Jun 2004 20:13:27 +1000 | From | Paul Mackerras <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH][RFC] Spinlock-timeout |
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Jake Moilanen writes:
> Here's a patch that will BUG() when a spinlock is held for longer then X > seconds. It is useful for catching deadlocks since not all archs have a > NMI watchdog. [snip] > + if (jiffies >= jiffy_timeout) > + BUG();
Don't you need to use time_after()?
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