Re: [PATCH][RFC] Spinlock-timeout

[Paul Mackerras]

Jake Moilanen writes:

> Here's a patch that will BUG() when a spinlock is held for longer then X
> seconds.  It is useful for catching deadlocks since not all archs have a
> NMI watchdog.  
[snip]
> +		if (jiffies >= jiffy_timeout) 
> +		        BUG();

Don't you need to use time_after()?

Regards,
Paul.
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