Re: [RFC PATCH 0/4] Clean up watchdog handlers

[Babu Moger]

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 run into problems with 
your tests.
I will start working on the comments.
Thanks
Babu

> 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