Messages in this thread | | | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Date | Fri, 13 Oct 2017 12:12:29 -0700 | Subject | Re: NMI watchdog dump does not print on hard lockup |
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On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 6:18 AM, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote: > > Or add the following case: The watchdog triggers, does the print, then > if it triggers again in a certain amount of time, and the print still > hasn't been flushed, the flush happens then.
By the time 40 sec has passed, I suspect most people have just rebooted the machine.
I think an NMI watchdog should just force the flush - the same way an oops should. Deadlocks aren't really relevant if something doesn't get printed out anyway.
Linus
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