Re: [PATCH] NMI watch dog notify patch

[Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>]

On Fri, 29 Jul 2005 13:55:23 -0700, 
George Anzinger <george@mvista.com> wrote:
>	This patch adds a notify to the die_nmi notify that the system
>	is about to be taken down.  If the notify is handled with a
>	NOTIFY_STOP return, the system is given a new lease on life.
> 
> void die_nmi (struct pt_regs *regs, const char *msg)
> {
>+	if (notify_die(DIE_NMIWATCHDOG, "nmi_watchdog", regs, 
>+		       0, 0, SIGINT) == NOTIFY_STOP)
>+		return;
>+
> 	spin_lock(&nmi_print_lock);
> 	/*
> 	* We are in trouble anyway, lets at least try

Minor nitpick.  die_nmi() already gets a message passed in to
distinguish between different types of nmi.  Pass that message to
notify_die(), on the off chance that the notified routines can use that
difference.

Also your patch adds a trailing whitespace on the call to notify_die().