Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753844AbXLCNOy (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Dec 2007 08:14:54 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751833AbXLCNOq (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Dec 2007 08:14:46 -0500 Received: from one.firstfloor.org ([213.235.205.2]:39262 "EHLO one.firstfloor.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751454AbXLCNOq (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Dec 2007 08:14:46 -0500 Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2007 14:14:42 +0100 From: Andi Kleen To: Ingo Molnar Cc: Andi Kleen , Radoslaw Szkodzinski , Arjan van de Ven , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , Thomas Gleixner Subject: Re: [feature] automatically detect hung TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE tasks Message-ID: <20071203131442.GA4004@one.firstfloor.org> References: <20071203095501.GB28560@one.firstfloor.org> <20071203111520.33ed2139@astralstorm.puszkin.org> <20071203102715.GC28560@one.firstfloor.org> <20071203103815.GA2707@elte.hu> <20071203110412.GD28560@one.firstfloor.org> <20071203115900.GB8432@elte.hu> <20071203121357.GB2986@one.firstfloor.org> <20071203122833.GA20232@elte.hu> <20071203124144.GC2986@one.firstfloor.org> <20071203130003.GA26372@elte.hu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20071203130003.GA26372@elte.hu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 751 Lines: 25 > negative I would consider it positive, but ok. If I was negative I would probably not care and just make always sure to disable SOFTLOCKUP in the kernels I use. > feedback about an impending catastrophy has been duly noted The point was less about an impending catastrophe, but more of a timebomb ticking until the next widely used release. > Can we now please move on to a > more productive stage? Sure no more theory. To what value do you want to set the backtrace sysctl by default? -Andi -- 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/