Re: [patch] Change softlockup trigger limit using a kernelparameter

[Andrew Morton]

On Mon, 16 Jul 2007 15:26:50 -0700
Ravikiran G Thirumalai <kiran@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Kernel warns of softlockups if the softlockup thread is not able to run
> on a CPU for 10s.  It is useful to lower the softlockup warning
> threshold in testing environments to catch potential lockups early.
> Following patch adds a kernel parameter 'softlockup_lim' to control
> the softlockup threshold.
> 

Why not make it tunable at runtime?

> 
> Control the trigger limit for softlockup warnings.  This is useful for
> debugging softlockups, by lowering the softlockup_lim to identify
> possible softlockups earlier.

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