On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 09:02:19AM -0700, Babu Moger wrote: > 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 for the patches Babu. I will try to get to them today or tomorrow. Cheers, Don > > Thanks to Don Zickus for his suggestions. > Here is the previous discussion > http://www.spinics.net/lists/sparclinux/msg16441.html > > Babu Moger (4): > watchdog: Remove hardlockup handler references > watchdog: Move shared definitions to nmi.h > watchdog: Move hardlockup detector in separate file > sparc: Implement watchdog_nmi_enable and watchdog_nmi_disable > > arch/sparc/kernel/nmi.c | 44 ++++++++- > include/linux/nmi.h | 19 ++++ > kernel/Makefile | 1 + > kernel/watchdog.c | 276 ++--------------------------------------------- > kernel/watchdog_hld.c | 238 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > 5 files changed, 312 insertions(+), 266 deletions(-) > create mode 100644 kernel/watchdog_hld.c > -- 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
