Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: HW perf initialisation as early_initcall | From | Peter Zijlstra <> | Date | Wed, 23 Nov 2011 16:57:31 +0100 |
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On Wed, 2011-11-23 at 15:30 +0000, Will Deacon wrote: > We don't use this on ARM so I'm not familiar with it. > NMI watchdog is basically a perf counter that fires every few seconds and checks if the system is still making progress (much like the regular soft watchdog stuff we have). If it thinks we're stuck it prints stack traces to the console etc..
Handy for if you do dumb stuff like:
local_irq_disable(); while (1) ;
Which oddly enough seems to happen way too often ;-)
Anyway, it all depends on having NMIs in the first place.
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