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    SubjectRe: [PATCH] disable softlockup detection at boottime

    * Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com> wrote:

    > > ah, sorry. But ... perhaps using threshold -1 would be the most
    > > intuitive setting? (for 'infinite timeout' ==> softlockup detector
    > > turned off) That way it all becomes configurable as part of the
    > > threshold? No strong opinion though.
    >
    > Having the ability to switch it off dynamically would be nice to have,
    > but will need a little work yet. Any solution should also minimize
    > the amount of time spent in softlockup_tick.
    >
    > Either '0' or '-1' seems OK to me, but if '-1' turns it off, do we
    > allow a value of '0'?.

    i think <= 0 should be the condition for "off". That means both -1 and 0
    would be OK.

    Ingo


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