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SubjectRe: [RFC PATCH 0/4] Clean up watchdog handlers
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On 10/31/2016 4:00 PM, Don Zickus wrote:
> 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 to Don Zickus for his suggestions.
>> Here is the previous discussion
>> http://www.spinics.net/lists/sparclinux/msg16441.html
> Hi Babu,
>
> I finally got some cycles to poke at this today. Good work. A couple of
> suggestions. For bisectability, I am thinking patch2 should be first and
> patch1 and patch3 should be combined. Also watchdog_hld.c is going to need
> up top:
>
> #define pr_fmt(fmt) "NMI watchdog: " fmt
>
> otherwise the error messages miss the header.
>
> Though I don't think watchdog.c and watchdog_hld.c should have the same
> header. A good solution isn't coming to me right now. I will try to run
> some tests on this tomorrow.

Don, Thanks for the feedback. Let me know if you into issues with
your tests. I will start working on the
review comments.

>
>
> Cheers,
> Don
>
>> 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
>>

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