Re: [patch 33/61] lock validator: disable NMI watchdog if CONFIG_LOCKDEP

Ingo Molnar (on Mon, 29 May 2006 23:25:50 +0200) wrote:
>From: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
>
>The NMI watchdog uses spinlocks (notifier chains, etc.),
>so it's not lockdep-safe at the moment.

Fixed in 2.6.17-rc1.  notify_die() uses atomic_notifier_call_chain()
which uses RCU, not spinlocks.

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