Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 22 Mar 2007 11:30:18 -0400 | From | "Lee Revell" <> | Subject | Re: how can I touch softlockup watchdog on all cpus? |
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On 3/22/07, Cestonaro, Thilo (external) <Thilo.Cestonaro.external@fujitsu-siemens.com> wrote: > > You didn't explain _why_ you need to sleep for such a long time, > > and as you didn't give a pointer to your code, there's not > > much people can do to recommend changes other than "don't do that". > > The code which is executed between the local_irq_disable and enable, > is just a function call into our companies bios (e.g. for updating itself) > and the long time is just 15 sec. while the bios has full control and OS is halted. > So I can't change anything at this point, but I need to fetch the watchdog, > cause it is not so nice, if there is a big BUG output on console while the > computer updates it's bios, very trustworthy isn't it :).
Just disable the softlockup watchdog.
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