Re: [stable] Soft lockups since stable kernel upgrade to 2.6.23.8

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Tue Nov 20 2007 - 15:39:53 EST



* Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > but we only have cpu_clock() from v2.6.23 onwards - so we should not
> > apply the original patch to v2.6.22. (we should not have applied
> > your patch that started the mess to begin with - but that's another
> > matter.)
>
> Well, I can easily back that one out, if that is easier than adding 2
> more patches to try to fix up the mess here.
>
> Let me know if you feel that would be best.

i'd leave it alone - doing that we have in essence the softlockup
detector turned off. Reverting to the older version might trigger false
positives that need the new stuff.

Ingo
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