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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/2] Spinlock timeout
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On Tue, 6 Jul 2004 16:16:27 -0500
Jake Moilanen <moilanen@austin.ibm.com> wrote:

> This will cause a BUG() when a spinlock is held for longer then X
> seconds. It is useful for catching deadlocks since not all archs
> have a NMI watchdog.
>
> It is also helpful to find locks that are held too long.
>
> Please comment or apply.
>
> Thanks,

Just don't ever run on a production or benchmark system because there are
cases where a lock can get hot and statistically take a real long time.
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