Bug 683236

Summary: [RFE] new lockup detector
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: Chris Williams <cww>
Component: kernelAssignee: Jiri Olsa <jolsa>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: Red Hat Kernel QE team <kernel-qe>
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Priority: medium    
Version: 6.3CC: dzickus, james.leddy
Target Milestone: rcKeywords: FutureFeature, Triaged
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Description Chris Williams 2011-03-08 21:37:35 UTC 
1) Customer Name:
Goldman Sachs

2) Nature Of Problem:
Lockups are a constant pain for the firm in RHEL 4/5

3) Business Requirements Satisfied By Request:
Lockups will be more managable and appear the same against all hardware. There is also an X depending on whether it's a soft or hard lockup.

4) Functional Requirements That Are Not Presently Possible:
Use the new lockup detector

5) What Will Success Look Like:
new lockup detector merged 

http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail//linux/kernel/1005.3/00216.html


6) Desired Release Vehicle:
6.2

7) Request Meets The RHEL Inclusion Criteria:
Yes

8) Affected Packages:
kernel

9) Sales Sponsor:
ssajer

10) Rh Business Opportunity With Customer:
GS is one of our largest FSI customers and there is always potential to grow that business.

11) Status And Risk To Contract If Not Satisfied:
very small

12) If this request is vendor specific, has the customer engaged the partner as well?:
Not Applicable
Comment 2 Don Zickus 2011-06-16 12:55:13 UTC 
These changes are already included in RHEL-6.1.  We should probably close this as CURRENTRELEASE.  However, only on x86_64 is the hard lockup detector defaulted to on.

Cheers,
Don
Comment 3 James M. Leddy 2011-06-20 15:27:52 UTC 
(In reply to comment #2)
> These changes are already included in RHEL-6.1.  We should probably close this
> as CURRENTRELEASE.  However, only on x86_64 is the hard lockup detector
> defaulted to on.
> 
> Cheers,
> Don

Don, 

Thanks for the update, I'll close this