On Tue, 17 May 2005, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > > > "exciting", and we've several times had code that does actually disable > > interrupts for a long time - which may be exceedingly impolite, but then > > the NMI watchdog makes it a fatal error rather than something that is just > > a nuisanse. > > Well, this is actually not a problem with the watchdog itself. And I'd > rather say it's doing us a favour (and a great job) finding these buggy > bits of code that keep interrupts off CPUs. ;-) For a _developer_ yes. For a user under X, who finds his machine locked up and not doing anything, no. And this is _exactly_ why we don't enable it by default. Go wild on your own machines - I used to do it myself. But users are better off with working machines. IOW, testing is good, but it's _not_ good if you test your users to destruction. User testing should be limited (as far as humanly possible) to things that they can sanely report. Linus - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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