kernel/watchdog.c: move shared definitions to nmi.h
authorBabu Moger <babu.moger@oracle.com>
Wed, 14 Dec 2016 23:06:21 +0000 (15:06 -0800)
committerRaspbian kernel package updater <root@raspbian.org>
Sun, 23 Jul 2017 02:59:18 +0000 (02:59 +0000)
commit2ca1889236309f7cf6b3463adb6b7357df9c6163
tree4ebe52446f58972e9887e1a9d689ffb4662fdec8
parentcc31855387798fc4d15c1dd055b09be3a3f8bb99
kernel/watchdog.c: move shared definitions to nmi.h

[ Upstream commit 249e52e35580fcfe5dad53a7dcd7c1252788749c ]

Patch series "Clean up watchdog handlers", v2.

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 are our previous discussions
http://www.spinics.net/lists/sparclinux/msg16543.html
http://www.spinics.net/lists/sparclinux/msg16441.html

This patch (of 3):

Move shared macros and definitions to nmi.h so that watchdog.c, new file
watchdog_hld.c or any other architecture specific handler can use those
definitions.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1478034826-43888-2-git-send-email-babu.moger@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Babu Moger <babu.moger@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Yaowei Bai <baiyaowei@cmss.chinamobile.com>
Cc: Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@redhat.com>
Cc: Ulrich Obergfell <uobergfe@redhat.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Hidehiro Kawai <hidehiro.kawai.ez@hitachi.com>
Cc: Josh Hunt <johunt@akamai.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@verizon.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
include/linux/nmi.h
kernel/watchdog.c