Re: [PATCH 4/5] watchdog: control hard lockup detection default

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Mon Aug 18 2014 - 15:00:51 EST


* Don Zickus <dzickus@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > 2)
> >
> > The softlockup and hardlockup detection control variables
> > should be in separate flags, inside and outside the kernel
> > - they (should) not relate to each other.
>
> They did because years ago I thought we wanted to keep them
> as one entity instead of two. I would have to re-work the
> code to do this (and add more knobs).
>
> I presume you would want those changes done before taking
> this patchset?

Yeah, fixing/cleaning up things would be nice before spreading
the pain via new features/control mechanisms.

Thanks,

Ingo
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