On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 10:44:44AM -0700, Jerry Hoemann wrote: > Is your desire to remove of the firmware callback/spinlock in hpwdt_pretimeout > related to David Woodhouse patch set: That's the work that made us find this code, but no, even without that, code like that is entirely dodgy. NMI code needs to be very careful and firmware just isn't something I trust to get things right. Worse, its not something we can fix. And using spnilock from NMI context is just wrong, if anything it needs be raw_spnilock but even then, yuck. -- 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
