On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 12:17:04AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Jerry Hoemann <jerry.hoemann@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > Ingo, > > > > I have a patch set under review that brings hpwdt into compliance > > with the watchdog core. > > > > One of the changes removes the callback into firmware in hpwdt_pretimeout > > and its associated spinlock. > > > > https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/2/12/30 > > drivers/watchdog/hpwdt.c | 490 +---------------------------------------------- > 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 482 deletions(-) > > Very nice, and this should solve all the NMI handling complications! > > > I will add you to the CC list of the next version of the set. > > Thanks! > > Ingo Ingo, Is your desire to remove of the firmware callback/spinlock in hpwdt_pretimeout related to David Woodhouse patch set: https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/2/14/305 ? Which I think are to mitigate performance issues resulting from the changes to address the specter/meltdown? Any there other changes to hpwdt needed related to this work? Thanks Jerry -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jerry Hoemann Software Engineer Hewlett Packard Enterprise ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-watchdog" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
