Re: [patch] fix the softlockup watchdog to actually work

* Andrew Morton <[email protected]> wrote:

> > [this is -stable material too.]
> 
> This seems terribly sensitive.
> 
> Someone has broken the Vaio (shock, horror).  It now has mysterious 
> jerkiness: when leaning on autorepeat it stalls for maybe 0.25 seconds 
> every 1.5 seconds.  The stalls are far less than a second.  Yet this 
> is enough to trigger random softlockup warnings.
> 
> Some of those warnings are below.  Note that the traces are all pretty 
> useless, as softlockup warnings so often seem to be.

hm, you havent picked up the other softlockup enhancements i did, which 
make the warnings more useful.

	Ingo
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