Re: Which is simpler? (Was Re: [Suspend2-devel] Re: [ 00/10] [Suspend2] Modules support.)

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Mon Feb 20 2006 - 15:09:30 EST


On Monday 20 February 2006 20:45, Lee Revell wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 15:54 +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > > I know I am bad for not reporting that earlier but swsusp was
> > working
> > > OK for me till about 3 month ago when I started getting "soft lockup
> > > detected on CPU0" with no useable backtrace 3 times out of 4. I
> > > somehow suspect that having automounted nfs helps it to fail
> > > somehow...
> >
> > Disable soft lockup watchdog :-).
>
> You do know that message is harmless and doesn't actually do anything
> right? It's just warning you that the kernel allowed something to hog
> the CPU without rescheduling for a LONG time.

This particular one is almost certainly a false-positive. Still it doesn't
mean we shouldn't try to get rid of it.

Greetings,
Rafael
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