> On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 04:55:05PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > On Mon, 23 Apr 2007 11:36:30 -0400
> > Dave Jones <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > > If the chip locks up, we get into a long polling loop,
> > > where the softlockup detector kicks in.
> > > See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=151878
> for an example.
> >
> > Surely in this situation the softlockup report and trap out is
> precisely what should be occurring.
>
> We can't do anything useful with the trace. It already prints out info
> that the hardware locked up.
And when nvidiafb detects a lockup, it will go to safe mode. Better than
rebooting, I think.
Tony
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