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Date:	Mon, 23 Apr 2007 12:18:48 -0400
From:	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>
To:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc:	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Antonino Daplas <adaplas@....net>
Subject: Re: Prevent softlockup triggering in nvidiafb

On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 04:55:05PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
 > On Mon, 23 Apr 2007 11:36:30 -0400
 > Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com> wrote:
 > 
 > > If the chip locks up, we get into a long polling loop,
 > > where the softlockup detector kicks in.
 > > See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=151878
 > > for an example.
 > 
 > Surely in this situation the softlockup report and trap out is precisely
 > what should be occurring.

We can't do anything useful with the trace.  It already prints out
info that the hardware locked up.

	Dave

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