Re: [PATCH] rwsem: Make rwsems use interrupt disabling spinlocks

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Fri Mar 11 2005 - 04:44:00 EST



* Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > Ingo, we already have a touch_nmi_watchdog() in the sysrq code. It might be
> > worth adding a touch_softlockup_watchdog() wherever we have a
> > touch_nmi_watchdog().
>
> ....or add touch_softlockup_watchdog to touch_nmi_watchdog() instead
> and rename it tickle_watchdog() overtime.

you mean like:

+extern void touch_softlockup_watchdog(void);

in:

http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.11/2.6.11-mm2/broken-out/detect-soft-lockups.patch

?

Ingo
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