From: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 16:04:34 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: x86: stop nmi softlockup warnings in show_mem()
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.24-rc1~476^2~92
X-Git-Url: http://pilppa.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=27eb0b288fb3b46350f3e6c2fad0b36937a4cc85;p=linux-2.6-omap-h63xx.git

x86: stop nmi softlockup warnings in show_mem()

When dumping memory via sysrq-m it is possible to take a bogus NMI
watchdog or softlockup watchdog because the dump can take a long time on
big memory systems.

Occasionally tickle the watchdog when doing the dump.

Signed-off-by: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/pgtable_32.c b/arch/x86/mm/pgtable_32.c
index bbaa2b15393..be61a1d845a 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/pgtable_32.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/pgtable_32.c
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 #include <linux/kernel.h>
 #include <linux/errno.h>
 #include <linux/mm.h>
+#include <linux/nmi.h>
 #include <linux/swap.h>
 #include <linux/smp.h>
 #include <linux/highmem.h>
@@ -39,6 +40,8 @@ void show_mem(void)
 	for_each_online_pgdat(pgdat) {
 		pgdat_resize_lock(pgdat, &flags);
 		for (i = 0; i < pgdat->node_spanned_pages; ++i) {
+			if (unlikely(i % MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES == 0))
+				touch_nmi_watchdog();
 			page = pgdat_page_nr(pgdat, i);
 			total++;
 			if (PageHighMem(page))