Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 21 Feb 2006 12:50:33 -0800 (PST) | Subject | Re: softlockup interaction with slow consoles | From | "David S. Miller" <> |
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From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 15:27:57 -0500
> On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 12:19:48PM -0800, David S. Miller wrote: > > From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> > > Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 21:05:37 +0100 > > > > > The classic way is to just use touch_nmi_watchdog() somewhere > > > in the loop that does work. That touches the softwatchdog too > > > these days. > > > > "jiffies" aren't advancing, since interrupts are disabled by > > release_console_sem(), so that doesn't work. > > > > I tried that already :-) > > Where did you put it? I hit a similar problem a few months back, > and this patch did the trick for me..
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