Re: [PATCH] watchdog: hpwdt: Remove spinlock acquire and BIOS calls from NMI context
From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Wed Feb 14 2018 - 18:17:19 EST
* Jerry Hoemann <jerry.hoemann@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Ingo,
>
> I have a patch set under review that brings hpwdt into compliance
> with the watchdog core.
>
> One of the changes removes the callback into firmware in hpwdt_pretimeout
> and its associated spinlock.
>
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/2/12/30
drivers/watchdog/hpwdt.c | 490 +----------------------------------------------
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 482 deletions(-)
Very nice, and this should solve all the NMI handling complications!
> I will add you to the CC list of the next version of the set.
Thanks!
Ingo