Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 21 Nov 2016 13:42:47 -0500 (EST) | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] Clean up watchdog handlers | From | David Miller <> |
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From: Babu Moger <babu.moger@oracle.com> Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2016 14:13:43 -0700
> This is an attempt to cleanup watchdog handlers. Right now, > kernel/watchdog.c implements both softlockup and hardlockup detectors. > Softlockup code is generic. Hardlockup code is arch specific. Some > architectures don't use hardlockup detectors. They use their own watchdog > detectors. To make both these combination work, we have numerous #ifdefs > in kernel/watchdog.c. > > We are trying here to make these handlers independent of each other. > Also provide an interface for architectures to implement their own > handlers. watchdog_nmi_enable and watchdog_nmi_disable will be defined > as weak such that architectures can override its definitions. > > Thanks to Don Zickus for his suggestions. > Here are our previous discussions > http://www.spinics.net/lists/sparclinux/msg16543.html > http://www.spinics.net/lists/sparclinux/msg16441.html
This touches a bunch of generic code, only the third patch is sparc specific.
Anyways have any plans to merge this via another tree or should I take it via sparc? If I take it via sparc I want some ACKs.
Thanks.
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