What is a CPU soft lockup?
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A soft lockup is the symptom of a task or kernel thread using and not releasing a CPU for a longer period of time than allowed.
The technical reason behind a soft lock involves CPU interrupts and nmi-watchdog. For each online CPU on the system, a watchdog process gets created. This kernel thread is created with highest scheduling priority possible. This process "wakes u...
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