From: Babu Moger <babu.moger@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2016 14:13:43 -0700 > 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 to Don Zickus for his suggestions. > Here are our previous discussions > http://www.spinics.net/lists/sparclinux/msg16543.html > http://www.spinics.net/lists/sparclinux/msg16441.html This touches a bunch of generic code, only the third patch is sparc specific. Anyways have any plans to merge this via another tree or should I take it via sparc? If I take it via sparc I want some ACKs. Thanks. -- 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
