[RFC][PATCH][kprobe] enabling booster on the preemptible kernel, take 2

Masami Hiramatsu masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com
Tue Oct 31 16:39:00 GMT 2006


Hi Ingo,

Ingo Molnar wrote:
> another thought:
> 
> would it help if we extended the 'soft lockup watchdog' with periodic
> 'try whether the whole system can be frozen' checks? That would make
> testing coverage alot wider, and it would also give kernel developers an
> easy way to make sure the kernel is still freezable. (instead of having
> to try something like sw-suspend explicitly)

It seems useful to me, I'll check that.
Thank you!

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Masami HIRAMATSU
Linux Technology Center
Hitachi, Ltd., Systems Development Laboratory
E-mail: masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com




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