Messages in this thread | | | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: softlockup interaction with slow consoles | Date | Tue, 21 Feb 2006 21:05:37 +0100 |
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On Tuesday 21 February 2006 21:01, David S. Miller wrote: > From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> > Date: 21 Feb 2006 14:49:49 +0100 > > > Still you could probably see problems with very slow consoles even > > after bootup, couldn't you? > > Yes, others have mentioned this too, good point. > > Depending upon what we're really trying to achieve with the > softlockup stuff, we can perhaps look into increasing the > timeout or making it configurable. We could even do this > dynamically, so when we register a serial console running > at some low baud rate, we scale up the softlockup timeout > or something like that.
The classic way is to just use touch_nmi_watchdog() somewhere in the loop that does work. That touches the softwatchdog too these days.
-Andi
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