Re: [PATCH 2/3] x86, nmi_watchdog: remove the old nmi_watchdog

[Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>]

On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 07:23:39PM -0800, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> > -	{
> > -		.procname       = "nmi_watchdog",
> > -		.data           = &nmi_watchdog_enabled,
> > -		.maxlen         = sizeof (int),
> > -		.mode           = 0644,
> > -		.proc_handler   = proc_nmi_enabled,
> > -	},
> 
> wonder if you can keep nmi_watchdog in sysctl? So in run-time it could be disabled after it booted up.

Well, with the new code I have watchdog_enabled which does the same thing.
With the nmi watchdog moving to generic code, the idea was to call it a
hardlockup detector.  I guess I was trying to rename things to avoid using
nmi all over the place to reflect the idea that a hardlockup might be able
to be used by something other than an nmi.

I can probably wrap this around watchdog_enabled to preserve it I suppose.
Let me know.

Cheers,
Don