From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753987Ab0AKU1e (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Jan 2010 15:27:34 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751319Ab0AKU1d (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Jan 2010 15:27:33 -0500 Received: from mail-ew0-f209.google.com ([209.85.219.209]:51480 "EHLO mail-ew0-f209.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751300Ab0AKU1d (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Jan 2010 15:27:33 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:references:mime-version :content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; b=bcF3sRrL8Civ1aH/TwUGovYKeGSG9NR/XN+NgNGxBAUyqIUkdLvO4YTrLtN0+agdA4 Ud7D9/yaB7aiBR9hbHRDi8dFFQvHYUC9hNouUtCgMqZpTcAetVipCiHcgO0okTooP91P OAvb8wr+JFzTsKisRbGD7PzJfDKp81GHWlQDI= Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 23:27:29 +0300 From: Cyrill Gorcunov To: Don Zickus Cc: mingo@elte.hu, aris@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: introduce NMI_AUTO as nmi_watchdog option Message-ID: <20100111202729.GI4923@lenovo> References: <20100111191633.GT24885@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100111191633.GT24885@redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 02:16:33PM -0500, Don Zickus wrote: > Hi Ingo, > ... > I was going to jump in and try to do this work. I wanted to make sure > what you were looking for here. When you say convert nmi watchdog to perf > events, I assume you mean merging over the bits of perfctr-watchdog.c to > perf_events.c, modify nmi.c to just register as a normal perf event and > probably cleanup the oprofile stuff to match, correct? > > Cheers, > Don > As far as I know -- converting perfctr-watchdog.c to into perfevents style would be quite a desirable feature. But I still didn't manage to find time for this task :( If you're interested to start this work -- that would be just great! -- Cyrill