The patch titled
i386: fix NMI watchdog not reserving its MSRs
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
i386-fix-nmi-watchdog-not-reserving-its-msrs.patch
This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree
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Subject: i386: fix NMI watchdog not reserving its MSRs
From: Bjorn Steinbrink <B.Steinbrink@xxxxxx>
At system boot time, the NMI watchdog no longer reserved its MSRs, allowing
other subsystems to mess with them. Fix that.
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Steinbrink <B.Steinbrink@xxxxxx>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/i386/kernel/cpu/perfctr-watchdog.c | 6 ++++++
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
diff -puN arch/i386/kernel/cpu/perfctr-watchdog.c~i386-fix-nmi-watchdog-not-reserving-its-msrs arch/i386/kernel/cpu/perfctr-watchdog.c
--- a/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/perfctr-watchdog.c~i386-fix-nmi-watchdog-not-reserving-its-msrs
+++ a/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/perfctr-watchdog.c
@@ -614,6 +614,12 @@ int lapic_watchdog_init(unsigned nmi_hz)
probe_nmi_watchdog();
if (!wd_ops)
return -1;
+
+ if (!wd_ops->reserve()) {
+ printk(KERN_ERR
+ "NMI watchdog: cannot reserve perfctrs\n");
+ return -1;
+ }
}
if (!(wd_ops->setup(nmi_hz))) {
_
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