2.6.22-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: Ingo Molnar patch a115d5caca1a2905ba7a32b408a6042b20179aaa in mainline. this Xen related commit: commit 966812dc98e6a7fcdf759cbfa0efab77500a8868 Author: Jeremy Fitzhardinge Date: Tue May 8 00:28:02 2007 -0700 Ignore stolen time in the softlockup watchdog broke the softlockup watchdog to never report any lockups. (!) print_timestamp defaults to 0, this makes the following condition always true: if (print_timestamp < (touch_timestamp + 1) || and we'll in essence never report soft lockups. apparently the functionality of the soft lockup watchdog was never actually tested with that patch applied ... Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- kernel/softlockup.c | 7 ++++--- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) --- a/kernel/softlockup.c +++ b/kernel/softlockup.c @@ -79,10 +79,11 @@ void softlockup_tick(void) print_timestamp = per_cpu(print_timestamp, this_cpu); /* report at most once a second */ - if (print_timestamp < (touch_timestamp + 1) || - did_panic || - !per_cpu(watchdog_task, this_cpu)) + if ((print_timestamp >= touch_timestamp && + print_timestamp < (touch_timestamp + 1)) || + did_panic || !per_cpu(watchdog_task, this_cpu)) { return; + } /* do not print during early bootup: */ if (unlikely(system_state != SYSTEM_RUNNING)) { -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/