On Wednesday 28 March 2007 16:00, Prarit Bhargava wrote: > > >> touch_nmi_watchdog is attempting to tickle _all_ CPUs softlockup watchdogs. > >> > > > > It is supposed to only touch the current CPU, just like it only touches > > the NMI watchdog on the current CPU. > > > > > > Andi, > > (sorry for the cut-and-paste). > > touch_nmi_watchdogs sets EACH CPUs alert_counter to 0. You're right. Sorry for the confusion. But just touching the current CPU would make much more sense. After all the caller doesn't know anything about the state of other CPUs. Perhaps it would be best to just change that and keep the softlockup semantics. -Andi _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list Virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization
