Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 15 Feb 2000 07:18:37 -0800 (PST) | From | Robert Dinse <> | Subject | Re: SMP spin_lock... |
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On Tue, 15 Feb 2000, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: > > Hi, > > On Mon, 14 Feb 2000 12:41:53 -0800 (PST), Robert Dinse > <nanook@eskimo.com> said: > > > I wish there were an option to recover from spin_lock deadlock > > conditions, when one times out, release the lock and get on with life > > or something. > > The 2.3 kernel's NMI lockup watchdog already detects spinlock deadlocks > well enough, and it would be pretty simple to make that mechanism use > the existing reboot-on-panic facility. > > --Stephen
To date, while I've been able to get 2.3 kernels to compile on both Sparc and Intel platforms, I haven't been able to get them to run. Not sure what I am doing wrong, but after it says Booting Linux... it just hangs.
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