linux-kernel - Re: [feature] automatically detect hung TASK

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Date:	Mon, 3 Dec 2007 15:50:15 +0200
From:	"Pekka Enberg" <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
To:	"Andi Kleen" <andi@...stfloor.org>
Cc:	"Ingo Molnar" <mingo@...e.hu>,
	"Radoslaw Szkodzinski" <lkml@...ralstorm.puszkin.org>,
	"Arjan van de Ven" <arjan@...radead.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Thomas Gleixner" <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [feature] automatically detect hung TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE tasks

Hi,

On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 12:59:00PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > "audit thousands of callsites in 8 million lines of code first" is a
> > nice euphemism for hiding from the blame forever. We had 10 years for it

On Dec 3, 2007 2:13 PM, Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org> wrote:
> Ok your approach is then to "let's warn about it and hope
> it will go away"

It's more like "lets warn about it and fix the problems when we find
some." Btw, how is this different from how the lockdep patches went
in?

                                Pekka
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