On Thu, 8 Feb 2007 09:06:44 +0100 Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > * Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The softlock detector has a long history of false positives and > > precious few true positives, in my experience. > > hm, not so the latest & lamest in my experience. The commit that made it > quite robust was 6687a97d4041f996f725902d2990e5de6ef5cbe5, as of March > 2006, and first showed up in 2.6.17. (OTOH, since the merge of lockdep > the main source of soft lockups in the field has been quite severely > reduced. Nevertheless it's still good to have it around, occasionally > there happen other types of soft lockups too, in open-coded loops, etc.) > So... what caused Lukasz's lockup? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
