On Fri 01-03-13 02:15:04, David Rientjes wrote: > On Fri, 1 Mar 2013, Michal Hocko wrote: > > > I have already asked about it in the original thread but didn't get any > > answer. How can we get a soft lockup when all implementations of show_mem > > call touch_nmi_watchdog? > > > > Feel free to do s/soft lockups/irqs being disabled for an extremely long > time/. OK, that sounds better. Sorry for being so persistent on this but soft lockups tend to be a real issue for distribution kernels with !CONFIG_PREEMPT so anything that fixes soft lockups raises a red flag. Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx> -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>