On Fri 01-03-13 02:15:04, David Rientjes wrote: > On Fri, 1 Mar 2013, Michal Hocko wrote: > > > I have already asked about it in the original thread but didn't get any > > answer. How can we get a soft lockup when all implementations of show_mem > > call touch_nmi_watchdog? > > > > Feel free to do s/soft lockups/irqs being disabled for an extremely long > time/.
OK, that sounds better. Sorry for being so persistent on this but soft lockups tend to be a real issue for distribution kernels with !CONFIG_PREEMPT so anything that fixes soft lockups raises a red flag. Acked-by: Michal Hocko <[email protected]> -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
