On Mon, Jul 09, 2007 at 10:02:42AM -0400, Konrad Rzeszutek wrote: > On large memory configuration with not so fast CPUs the NMI watchdog > is triggered when memory addresses are being gathered and printed. > The code paths for Alt-SysRq-t are sprinkled with touch_nmi_watchdog > in various places but not in this routine (or in the loop that utilizes > this function). The patch has been tested for regression on large CPU+memory > configuration (128 logical CPUs + 224 GB) and 1,2,4,16-CPU sockets with > various > memory sizes (1,2,4,6,20).
And the patch: diff --git a/arch/x86_64/kernel/traps.c b/arch/x86_64/kernel/traps.c index aac1c0b..b6e7d67 100644 --- a/arch/x86_64/kernel/traps.c +++ b/arch/x86_64/kernel/traps.c @@ -330,6 +330,10 @@ static int print_trace_stack(void *data, static void print_trace_address(void *data, unsigned long addr) { + static int i = 0; + if (i && ((i % 8) == 0)) + touch_nmi_watchdog(); + i++; printk_address(addr); } - 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/