Re: how can I touch softlockup watchdog on all cpus?

From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Date: Thu Mar 22 2007 - 21:51:03 EST


Dave Jones wrote:
> He wants to do this with interrupts off. on_each_cpu won't work in
> that situation.
>

I was thinking just before his big pause. But it sounds like its fairly
marginal.

> > Or patch the softlockup watchdog to add a way to temporarily disable it.
>
> Seems pretty much the only way you could make this work.
>

Yep. The patches I just posted might do the trick.

J
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