Diff. between CPU Hard-lockup and Soft-lockup

[naveen yadav]

soft lockups", which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel
mode for more than 10 seconds, without giving other tasks a chance to
run
Hard lock up:-> kernel got hang and you can get details with feature
like  watch dog.
Thanks

On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 2:58 PM, devendra rawat
<devendra.rawat.singh at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi,
>
> What are the Differences between CPU Hard-lockup and Soft-lockup.
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> Regards,
> Devendra
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