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From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, fastboot@osdl.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] x86_64 nmi_watchdog: Make check_nmi_watchdog static
Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2005 09:26:45 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1y859716y.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200510041721.09736.ak@suse.de> (Andi Kleen's message of "Tue, 4 Oct 2005 17:21:09 +0200")

Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> writes:

> On Tuesday 04 October 2005 17:11, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>> By using a late_initcall as i386 does we don't need to call
>> check_nmi_watchdog manually after SMP startup, and we don't
>> need different code paths for SMP and non SMP.
>>
>> This paves the way for moving apic initialization into init_IRQ,
>> where it belongs.
>
> I don't like it. I want to see a clear message in the log when
> the NMI watchdog doesn't work and with your patch that comes too late.

Why is it to late?

> -Andi (who has rejected similar patches before)

Would it be more appropriate to make this a per cpu check?  
I am just trying to make the code path clean so we don't have
special SMP/non-SMP logic.  Anything that achieves that is
fine with me.

Eric


  reply	other threads:[~2005-10-04 15:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-10-04 15:11 Eric W. Biederman
2005-10-04 15:21 ` Andi Kleen
2005-10-04 15:26   ` Eric W. Biederman [this message]
2005-10-04 15:32     ` Andi Kleen
2005-10-04 16:01       ` Eric W. Biederman

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