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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/3] x86, nmi_watchdog: remove the old nmi_watchdog
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On Nov 24, 2010, at 6:08 AM, Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 07:23:39PM -0800, Yinghai Lu wrote:
>>> - {
>>> - .procname = "nmi_watchdog",
>>> - .data = &nmi_watchdog_enabled,
>>> - .maxlen = sizeof (int),
>>> - .mode = 0644,
>>> - .proc_handler = proc_nmi_enabled,
>>> - },
>>
>> wonder if you can keep nmi_watchdog in sysctl? So in run-time it could be disabled after it booted up.
>
> Well, with the new code I have watchdog_enabled which does the same thing.
> With the nmi watchdog moving to generic code, the idea was to call it a
> hardlockup detector. I guess I was trying to rename things to avoid using
> nmi all over the place to reflect the idea that a hardlockup might be able
> to be used by something other than an nmi.
>
> I can probably wrap this around watchdog_enabled to preserve it I suppose.
> Let me know.

Yes that will be good

Thanks

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