Re: softlockup interaction with slow consoles

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From: Dave Jones <[email protected]>
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 <[email protected]>
>  > 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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