The patch titled fix the softlockup watchdog to actually work has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was fix-the-softlockup-watchdog-to-actually-work.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: fix the softlockup watchdog to actually work From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> this Xen related commit: commit 966812dc98e6a7fcdf759cbfa0efab77500a8868 Author: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx> Date: Tue May 8 00:28:02 2007 -0700 Ignore stolen time in the softlockup watchdog broke the softlockup watchdog to never report any lockups. (!) print_timestamp defaults to 0, this makes the following condition always true: if (print_timestamp < (touch_timestamp + 1) || and we'll in essence never report soft lockups. apparently the functionality of the soft lockup watchdog was never actually tested with that patch applied ... Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/softlockup.c | 7 ++++--- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff -puN kernel/softlockup.c~fix-the-softlockup-watchdog-to-actually-work kernel/softlockup.c --- a/kernel/softlockup.c~fix-the-softlockup-watchdog-to-actually-work +++ a/kernel/softlockup.c @@ -82,10 +82,11 @@ void softlockup_tick(void) print_timestamp = per_cpu(print_timestamp, this_cpu); /* report at most once a second */ - if (print_timestamp < (touch_timestamp + 1) || - did_panic || - !per_cpu(watchdog_task, this_cpu)) + if ((print_timestamp >= touch_timestamp && + print_timestamp < (touch_timestamp + 1)) || + did_panic || !per_cpu(watchdog_task, this_cpu)) { return; + } /* do not print during early bootup: */ if (unlikely(system_state != SYSTEM_RUNNING)) { _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from mingo@xxxxxxx are origin.patch git-acpi.patch git-kvm.patch net-dccp-fix-link-error-with-config_sysctl.patch git-netdev-all.patch fix-build-breakage-if-sysfs-fix.patch git-x86.patch hpet-force-enable-on-vt8235-37-chipsets.patch i386-paravirt-boot-sequence.patch workqueue-debug-flushing-deadlocks-with-lockdep.patch workqueue-debug-work-related-deadlocks-with-lockdep.patch lockdep-fix-mismatched-lockdep_depth-curr_chain_hash-checkpatch-fixes.patch whitespace-fixes-time-syscalls.patch whitespace-fixes-interval-timers.patch whitespace-fixes-system-timers.patch uninline-find_task_by_xxx-set-of-functions.patch cpuset-sched_load_balance-flag.patch cpuset-sched_load_balance-flag-fix.patch cpuset-sched_load_balance-kmalloc-fix.patch cpusets-decrustify-cpuset-mask-update-code.patch cpusets-decrustify-cpuset-mask-update-code-checkpatch-fixes.patch hotplug-cpu-migrate-a-task-within-its-cpuset.patch hotplug-cpu-migrate-a-task-within-its-cpuset-fix.patch hotplug-cpu-migrate-a-task-within-its-cpuset-whitespace-fix.patch hotplug-cpu-migrate-a-task-within-its-cpuset-doc.patch hook-up-group-scheduler-with-control-groups.patch hook-up-group-scheduler-with-control-groups-fix.patch uninline-forkc-exitc.patch uninline-forkc-exitc-checkpatch-fixes.patch detect-atomic-counter-underflows.patch make-frame_pointer-default=y.patch mutex-subsystem-synchro-test-module.patch lockdep-show-held-locks-when-showing-a-stackdump.patch kmap_atomic-debugging.patch - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html