Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965064AbVLNXHY (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Dec 2005 18:07:24 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965044AbVLNXHY (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Dec 2005 18:07:24 -0500 Received: from omx2-ext.sgi.com ([192.48.171.19]:53203 "EHLO omx2.sgi.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965043AbVLNXHX (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Dec 2005 18:07:23 -0500 Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 15:07:13 -0800 (PST) From: hawkes@sgi.com To: Tony Luck , Andrew Morton , linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Jack Steiner , Keith Owens , hawkes@sgi.com Message-Id: <20051214230713.7528.68477.sendpatchset@tomahawk.engr.sgi.com> Subject: [PATCH] ia64: eliminate softlockup warning Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1172 Lines: 28 Fix an unnecessary softlockup watchdog warning in the ia64 uncached_build_memmap() that occurs occasionally at 256p and always at 512p. The problem occurs at boot time. It would be good if we had a cleaner mechanism to temporarily silence the watchdog thread, e.g., http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=111552476401175&w=2 but until that patch gets merged, this fix will have to suffice. Signed-off-by: John Hawkes Index: linux/arch/ia64/kernel/uncached.c =================================================================== --- linux.orig/arch/ia64/kernel/uncached.c 2005-12-06 15:12:14.000000000 -0800 +++ linux/arch/ia64/kernel/uncached.c 2005-12-14 14:50:55.000000000 -0800 @@ -210,6 +210,7 @@ dprintk(KERN_ERR "uncached_build_memmap(%lx %lx)\n", start, end); + touch_softlockup_watchdog(); memset((char *)start, 0, length); node = paddr_to_nid(start - __IA64_UNCACHED_OFFSET); - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/