On Tue, 15 Feb 2000, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, 14 Feb 2000 12:41:53 -0800 (PST), Robert Dinse
> <nanook@eskimo.com> said:
>
> > I wish there were an option to recover from spin_lock deadlock
> > conditions, when one times out, release the lock and get on with life
> > or something.
>
> The 2.3 kernel's NMI lockup watchdog already detects spinlock deadlocks
> well enough, and it would be pretty simple to make that mechanism use
> the existing reboot-on-panic facility.
>
> --Stephen
To date, while I've been able to get 2.3 kernels to compile on both Sparc
and Intel platforms, I haven't been able to get them to run. Not sure what I
am doing wrong, but after it says Booting Linux... it just hangs.
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