> Attached is a patch adding hangcheck-timer. It is used to detect
> when the system goes out to lunch for a period of time, and then
> returns. This is interesting for debugging drivers as well as for
> clustering environments.
> The module sets a timer. When the timer goes off, it then uses
> get_cycles() to determine how much real time has passed.
This won't work on systems which do not have synchronized TSCs. Might
you consider using do_gettimeofday() instead?
thanks
-john