Re: tickle nmi watchdog whilst doing serial writes.

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On Sun, May 15, 2005 at 03:01:03PM +0100, Russell King wrote:
> On Sun, May 15, 2005 at 02:20:14PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > Then someone needs to convince Linus to export touch_nmi_watchdog
> > again. 
> > 
> > Or how about checking if interrupts are off here (iirc we have 
> > a generic function for that now) and then using
> > a smaller timeout and otherwise schedule_timeout() ?
> 
> The interrupt state doesn't tell us whether we can schedule.  It
> tells us when we can't schedule, which is different from when we
> can.  For example:

Yes, you're right of course.  Must have not been thinking clearly.

-Andi
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