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authorDavid Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>2008-10-13 20:13:56 +0400
committerDavid Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>2008-10-13 20:13:56 +0400
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Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6
Conflicts: include/asm-x86/statfs.h
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@@ -351,9 +351,10 @@ kernel. This value defaults to SHMMAX.
softlockup_thresh:
-This value can be used to lower the softlockup tolerance
-threshold. The default threshold is 10s. If a cpu is locked up
-for 10s, the kernel complains. Valid values are 1-60s.
+This value can be used to lower the softlockup tolerance threshold. The
+default threshold is 60 seconds. If a cpu is locked up for 60 seconds,
+the kernel complains. Valid values are 1-60 seconds. Setting this
+tunable to zero will disable the softlockup detection altogether.
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