RE: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Fix softlockup issue after vcpu hotplug

["Graham, Simon" <Simon.Graham@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> No, the patch that Kevin provided cannot work because it touches the
> watchdog before jiffies has been updated. Since both jiffy update and
> watchdog check happens inside do_timer(), this is a hard problem to
fix
> for
> Linux 2.6.16. You could push the watchdog touch inside the following
> loop
> that calls do_timer(): I think that would work!
> 

Thanks Keir -- I think it's time I moved to 3.0.4 and the later kernel!
Once I've done that, I'll get back to seeing if this issue still exists.

Simon

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