Re: softlockup interaction with slow consoles

From: David S. Miller
Date: Tue Feb 21 2006 - 15:51:45 EST


From: Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 15:27:57 -0500

> On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 12:19:48PM -0800, David S. Miller wrote:
> > 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 :-)
>
> Where did you put it? I hit a similar problem a few months back,
> and this patch did the trick for me..

Not the NMI watchdog, the softlockup watchdog.
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