> On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 04:55:05PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > On Mon, 23 Apr 2007 11:36:30 -0400 > > Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > If the chip locks up, we get into a long polling loop, > > > where the softlockup detector kicks in. > > > See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=151878 > for an example. > > > > Surely in this situation the softlockup report and trap out is > precisely what should be occurring. > > We can't do anything useful with the trace. It already prints out info > that the hardware locked up.
And when nvidiafb detects a lockup, it will go to safe mode. Better than rebooting, I think. Tony - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/