Re: [PATCH -tip, final] perf, x86: Add hw_watchdog_set_attr() in asake of nmi-watchdog on P4

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Tue Jul 05 2011 - 10:41:16 EST


On Tue, 2011-07-05 at 15:31 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> So there's lots of options to fix/improve this more intelligently.

Sure, and I like the alternative encoding thing best, but doing that
will take time, in the meantime this patch, which is relatively small
(and easy to revert once we get something better going) does fix a
problem for those few unfortunate souls still using P4 hardware.
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/