Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S947213AbcJaV16 (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Oct 2016 17:27:58 -0400 Received: from aserp1040.oracle.com ([141.146.126.69]:20412 "EHLO aserp1040.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S947102AbcJaV14 (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Oct 2016 17:27:56 -0400 Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/4] Clean up watchdog handlers To: Don Zickus References: <1477497743-15357-1-git-send-email-babu.moger@oracle.com> <20161031210056.GT35881@redhat.com> Cc: mingo@kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, ak@linux.intel.com, jkosina@suse.cz, baiyaowei@cmss.chinamobile.com, atomlin@redhat.com, uobergfe@redhat.com, tj@kernel.org, hidehiro.kawai.ez@hitachi.com, johunt@akamai.com, davem@davemloft.net, sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, bp@suse.de, bywxiaobai@163.com, cmetcalf@mellanox.com, keescook@chromium.org, ebiederm@xmission.com, huawei.libin@huawei.com, ralf@linux-mips.org, dvyukov@google.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, sam@ravnborg.org From: Babu Moger Organization: Oracle Corporation Message-ID: Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2016 16:26:49 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20161031210056.GT35881@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Source-IP: aserv0022.oracle.com [141.146.126.234] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2245 Lines: 56 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 >>