Re: [PATCH] nmi_watchdog: checkpatch.pl cleanups from earlierpatches

From: Cyrill Gorcunov
Date: Mon Feb 22 2010 - 18:32:09 EST


On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 02:24:27AM +0300, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 06:09:03PM -0500, Don Zickus wrote:
> ...
>
> Hi Don!
>
> > diff --git a/kernel/nmi_watchdog.c b/kernel/nmi_watchdog.c
> > index 3c75cbf..0a6f57f 100644
> > --- a/kernel/nmi_watchdog.c
> > +++ b/kernel/nmi_watchdog.c
> > @@ -50,31 +50,31 @@ void touch_all_nmi_watchdog(void)
> >
> > static int __init setup_nmi_watchdog(char *str)
> > {
> > - if (!strncmp(str, "panic", 5)) {
> > - panic_on_timeout = 1;
> > - str = strchr(str, ',');
> > - if (!str)
> > - return 1;
> > - ++str;
> > - }
> > - return 1;
> > + if (!strncmp(str, "panic", 5)) {
> > + panic_on_timeout = 1;
>
> If I understand all the things correct -- you don't need to check for ','
> after panic. It seems so. Because we're switching to perf_events I suppose
> we may drop expecting "lapic,ioapic" or whatever here? Or there is an idea
> to parse say "panic,software" (ie to switch to software events by default)?
>
> Though strictly speaking my question in rather unrelated to this patch
> agenda :)
>
> > + str = strchr(str, ',');
> > + if (!str)
> > + return 1;
> > + ++str;
> > + }
> > + return 1;
> > }
> > __setup("nmi_watchdog=", setup_nmi_watchdog);
> ...
>
> -- Cyrill

If I'm right -- the fix could be done later, after this patch applied.

-- Cyrill
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