Re: softlockup interaction with slow consoles

[David S. Miller]

From: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 21:05:37 +0100

> The classic way is to just use touch_nmi_watchdog() somewhere
> in the loop that does work. That touches the softwatchdog too
> these days.

"jiffies" aren't advancing, since interrupts are disabled by
release_console_sem(), so that doesn't work.

I tried that already :-)
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