Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] Clean up watchdog handlers

[David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>]

From: Babu Moger <babu.moger@oracle.com>
Date: Tue,  1 Nov 2016 14:13:43 -0700

> 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 touches a bunch of generic code, only the third patch is sparc
specific.

Anyways have any plans to merge this via another tree or should I
take it via sparc?  If I take it via sparc I want some ACKs.

Thanks.