From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sun, 4 May 2014 09:04:37 +0200 > On Sun, May 04, 2014 at 01:27:10AM -0400, David Miller wrote: >> >> Bring this code in line with the perf based generic NMI watchdog >> in kernel/watchdog.c (which we should convert over to at some >> point). >> >> In particular, don't do anything super fancy when the watchdog >> triggers, and specifically don't do a do_exit() which only makes >> things worse. > > It is always good when we can use more of the generic functionality. > Should we do something remotely similar for sparc32? > > It looks like the sun4m_nmi() function is also used for sun4d + leon, > but I need to look again to make sure. The sun4m NMI function is just for hard asynchronous errors, rather than a periodic event generated by perf counters. So it serves a different purpose, but it could use some cleanups nonetheless. I wrote that code when I was a coding cowboy of sorts :-) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe sparclinux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
