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From: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
To: rcochran@linutronix.de, Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
Cc: linux-watchdog@vger.kernel.org, rt@linutronix.de
Subject: Re: watchdog: octeon: missing FROZEN hot plug notifier actions
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2016 20:18:22 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <56EA21FE.6040009@roeck-us.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160316205105.GA14847@linutronix.de>

On 03/16/2016 01:51 PM, rcochran@linutronix.de wrote:
>
> In drivers/watchdog/octeon-wdt-main.c, the hot plug notifier callback,
> octeon_wdt_cpu_callback, does not handle events with CPU_TASKS_FROZEN
> set in the action code.
>
> Is this on purpose?  If so, then why is it done that way?
>

What do you expect it to do ?

My understanding is that CPU_TASKS_FROZEN is related to suspend/resume operations,
which are not really common for typical applications using Octeon CPUs. If they now
are, it might be worthwhile thinking about adding suspend/resume support to the driver.

Thanks,
Guenter


  reply	other threads:[~2016-03-17  3:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-03-16 20:51 watchdog: octeon: missing FROZEN hot plug notifier actions rcochran
2016-03-17  3:18 ` Guenter Roeck [this message]
2016-03-17  8:08   ` rcochran
2016-03-17 13:04     ` Guenter Roeck
2016-03-17 13:51       ` rcochran

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