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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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* K.R. Foley <kr@cybsft.com> wrote:

> >>[...] That works to get the system booted. Although I am getting many 
> >>soft lockups now, minutes after the boot. Log attached. [...]
> >
> >
> >hm, do you get actual lockups, or only the messages about them? I.e.  
> >does the system work fine if you [the sounds of careful thinking to get 
> >the word right] disable CONFIG_DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP, or does it lock up 
> >silently?
> 
> There doesn't seem to be any actual lockups, just messages. I will try 
> disabling the above when I get home this evening. Can't get to the 
> system right now.

i tweaked the softlockup detector in the last patch a bit (to fix false 
positives under very high loads), might have broken it on SMP.

	Ingo