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SubjectRe: Prevent softlockup triggering in nvidiafb
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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