Messages in this thread | | | From | Stephen Hemminger <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/2] Spinlock timeout | Date | Tue, 6 Jul 2004 14:39:21 -0700 |
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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. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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