linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] Make hard lockup detection use timestamps

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Date:	Fri, 29 Jul 2011 09:10:09 -0400
From:	Don Zickus <dzickus@...hat.com>
To:	ZAK Magnus <zakmagnus@...gle.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@...omium.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] Make hard lockup detection use timestamps

On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 05:16:00PM -0700, ZAK Magnus wrote:
> No news?
> 
> I've been testing and looking into issues and I realized dump_stack()
> calls touch_nmi_watchdog(). That wrecks what the patch is trying to do
> so I'm changing it to save the trace and print it later after the
> stall has completed. This would also resolve some other things you
> were saying weren't so good. Hopefully the logic is similar enough
> that some things you may have learned still apply.

Sorry, I have been caught up with a bunch of other work related issues
here.  I should be able to poke at this today.

Yeah, I forgot about the console write path.  That was causing another
separate problem for me a while ago with softlockups causing a
touch_nmi_watchdog on all cpus.  I still have to trade fixes to get that
in.

Cheers,
Don
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