Re: [PATCH] disable softlockup detection at boottime

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Tue Apr 29 2008 - 10:13:28 EST



* Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> > ah, sorry. But ... perhaps using threshold -1 would be the most
> > intuitive setting? (for 'infinite timeout' ==> softlockup detector
> > turned off) That way it all becomes configurable as part of the
> > threshold? No strong opinion though.
>
> Having the ability to switch it off dynamically would be nice to have,
> but will need a little work yet. Any solution should also minimize
> the amount of time spent in softlockup_tick.
>
> Either '0' or '-1' seems OK to me, but if '-1' turns it off, do we
> allow a value of '0'?.

i think <= 0 should be the condition for "off". That means both -1 and 0
would be OK.

Ingo
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