Messages in this thread | | | Date | 5 Aug 2003 23:14:16 +0200 | Date | Tue, 5 Aug 2003 23:14:16 +0200 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Export touch_nmi_watchdog |
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> Otherwise this will just keep on expanding.
It does expand on i386 exactly because the watchdog is disabled by default.
Looks like a mistake to me. It should be on because having usable backtraces on a deadlock/hang is useful enough that it outweights any other possible disadvantages. That's especially true for kernels out there at user's boxes, not just special debugging kernels run by developers.
[if there should be any hardware where it doesn't work it should be blacklisted there]
-Andi
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