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Message-Id: <20070823135738.17726.76343.sendpatchset@prarit.boston.redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 09:57:38 -0400
From: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@...hat.com>
To: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, mingo@...hat.com,
akpm@...ux-foundation.org, gbeshers@....com
Cc: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@...hat.com>
Subject: [PATCH]: i386 Stop bogus nmi & softlockup warnings in show_mem
When dumping memory via sysrq-m it is possible to take a bogus NMI watchdog
or softlockup watchdog because the dump can take a long time on big memory
systems.
Occasionally tickle the watchdog when doing the dump.
Signed-off-by: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@...hat.com>
diff --git a/arch/i386/mm/pgtable.c b/arch/i386/mm/pgtable.c
index 01437c4..9754cb5 100644
--- a/arch/i386/mm/pgtable.c
+++ b/arch/i386/mm/pgtable.c
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
#include <linux/kernel.h>
#include <linux/errno.h>
#include <linux/mm.h>
+#include <linux/nmi.h>
#include <linux/swap.h>
#include <linux/smp.h>
#include <linux/highmem.h>
@@ -39,6 +40,8 @@ void show_mem(void)
for_each_online_pgdat(pgdat) {
pgdat_resize_lock(pgdat, &flags);
for (i = 0; i < pgdat->node_spanned_pages; ++i) {
+ if (unlikely(i % MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES == 0))
+ touch_nmi_watchdog();
page = pgdat_page_nr(pgdat, i);
total++;
if (PageHighMem(page))
-
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