Re: [Openipmi-developer] BUG: soft lockup detected on CPU#1, ipmi_si

[Peter Palfrader <peter@palfrader.org>]

On Thu, 22 Jun 2006, Corey Minyard wrote:

> Peter, can you make a code change for me and try something out?
> 
> If possible, could you change the call to udelay(1) in the function
> ipmi_thread() in drivers/char/ipmi_si_intf.c to be a call to schedule()
> instead?  I'm guessing that will fix this problem.

That appears to work.  I can still get sensor data using ipmitool, and I
haven't gotten any of the soft lockup warnings in 4 hours.

Thanks!
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