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    SubjectRe: + mm-show_mem-suppress-page-counts-in-non-blockable-contexts.patch added to -mm tree
    On Fri 01-03-13 02:15:04, David Rientjes wrote:
    > On Fri, 1 Mar 2013, Michal Hocko wrote:
    >
    > > I have already asked about it in the original thread but didn't get any
    > > answer. How can we get a soft lockup when all implementations of show_mem
    > > call touch_nmi_watchdog?
    > >
    >
    > Feel free to do s/soft lockups/irqs being disabled for an extremely long
    > time/.

    OK, that sounds better. Sorry for being so persistent on this but soft
    lockups tend to be a real issue for distribution kernels with
    !CONFIG_PREEMPT so anything that fixes soft lockups raises a red flag.

    Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
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    Michal Hocko
    SUSE Labs


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