Re: [PATCH] x86, nmi_watchdog: Remove ARCH_HAS_NMI_WATCHDOG and rely on CONFIG_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR

[Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>]

On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 04:33:26PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > The x86 arch has shifted its use of the nmi_watchdog from a local implementation 
> > to the global one provide by kernel/watchdog.c.  This shift has caused a whole 
> > bunch of compile problems under different config options.  I attempt to simplify 
> > things with the patch below.
> 
> ok, this patch is looking better - but even after applying it to -tip (and resolving 
> the conflict) i get this link failure on 64-bit allyesconfig:

Sorry about the conflict.  I guess I stupidly based the patch ontop of the
small hack patch I sent to you a couple of hours before I sent this patch.

> 
> watchdog.c:(.text+0x7eacc): undefined reference to `hw_nmi_get_sample_period'

That said, I'm not sure how you resolved the conflict, but the define
ARCH_HAS_NMI_WATCHDOG should not be in the arch/x86/kernel/apic/hw_nmi.c
file.

Other than that, I am unable to reproduce the error you are seeing.
Looking at the code, 'hw_nmi_get_sample_period' is defined in one file and
called in one spot in another file.  Both cases that code is wrapped only
with CONFIG_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR, so I at a loss on where it would fail.

Do you have a branch I can look at it, just to double check?

Cheers,
Don