Re: [Xen-devel] kernel BUG look familiar?

[Matt Ayres <matta@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Keir Fraser wrote:

> There's a 5-second pause the first time negative segment offsets are
> used, to provide a clear warning to the user. The softlockup watchdog
> is supposed to kick in after 10 seconds, so something here is a bit
> confused. It's probably that mdelay() is delaying more than a
> second. It's a software delay loop which we really ought to replace
> with something better (HYPERVISOR_poll is the obvious candidate).
>
> The issue can be worked around by calling touch_softlockup_watchdog()
> in the 5-second delay loop in arch/i386/kernel/fixup.c.
Thanks for the quick fix Keir!

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