From: Prarit Bhargava 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 Cc: Andi Kleen Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- arch/i386/mm/pgtable.c | 3 +++ 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+) diff -puN arch/i386/mm/pgtable.c~i386-stop-bogus-nmi-softlockup-warnings-in-show_mem arch/i386/mm/pgtable.c --- a/arch/i386/mm/pgtable.c~i386-stop-bogus-nmi-softlockup-warnings-in-show_mem +++ a/arch/i386/mm/pgtable.c @@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ #include #include #include +#include #include #include #include @@ -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)) _