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Message-Id: <20070424105738.e0ce36a9.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 10:57:38 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
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Eric Dumazet <dada1@...mosbay.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
john stultz <johnstul@...ibm.com>,
Zachary Amsden <zach@...are.com>,
James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>,
Dan Hecht <dhecht@...are.com>,
Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>,
Chris Lalancette <clalance@...hat.com>,
Rick Lindsley <ricklind@...ibm.com>, Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>
Subject: Re: [patch 1/4] Ignore stolen time in the softlockup watchdog
On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 10:51:35 -0700 Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org> wrote:
> Andrew Morton wrote:
> > It seems fairly sensitive to .config settings. See
> > http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/config-sony.txt
> >
>
> I haven't tried your config yet, but I haven't managed to reproduce it
> by playing with the usual suspects in my config (SMP, PREEMPT). Any
> idea about which config changes make the difference?
I said that because the damn thing went away when I was hunting it down
because I lost the config and was unable to remember the right combination
of debug settings. Fortunately it later came back so I took care to
preserve the config.
> Hm, is it caused by using sched_clock() to generate the printk
> timestamps while generating the lock test output?
Conceivably. What does that locking API test do?
I was using printk timestamps and netconsole at the time.
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