Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 23 Apr 2007 12:18:48 -0400 | From | Dave Jones <> | Subject | Re: Prevent softlockup triggering in nvidiafb |
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On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 04:55:05PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > On Mon, 23 Apr 2007 11:36:30 -0400 > Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> 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.
Dave
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