Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: garbled oopsen | From | Andi Kleen <> | Date | Thu, 08 May 2003 04:49:28 +0200 |
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Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com> writes:
>> Can these be cleaned up in any reasonable way? > > It needs some additional spinlock in there. People have moaned for over a > year, patches have been floating about but nobody has taken the time to > finish one off and submit it.
I considered it for x86-64 and even implemented it, but never submitted in fear of deadlocks e.g. when an oops recurses. For this a spinlock_timeout() would be useful. Print anyways when you cannot get the lock in a second or two.
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