From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
"tglx@linutronix.de" <tglx@linutronix.de>,
"torvalds@linux-foundation.org" <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
"akpm@linux-foundation.org" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
"arjan@linux.intel.com" <arjan@linux.intel.com>,
"roland@redhat.com" <roland@redhat.com>,
"drepper@redhat.com" <drepper@redhat.com>,
"mikpe@it.uu.se" <mikpe@it.uu.se>,
"chrisw@sous-sol.org" <chrisw@sous-sol.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
wim@iguana.be
Subject: Re: [patch 0/9] x86, xsave: xsave/xrstor support
Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 00:36:29 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080731223629.GT23938@one.firstfloor.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080731221924.GD8563@linux-os.sc.intel.com>
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 03:19:24PM -0700, Suresh Siddha wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 03:14:35PM -0700, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > > Kernel was enabling watchdog, with out the userspace having the
> > > heartbeat daemon....
> >
> > Watchdog are normally only armed when someone opens the device
> > first.
>
> But thats not what I see with for ex with, w83627hf_wdt.c
>
> Its done at the module_init time. (while I thought it should be
> really done when some user level app opens the device, probably
> its poorly written to take care if the kernel panics before starting userland.
> but kernel can even die before the watchdog driver load aswell ;-)
Ok that watchdog driver is just broken then. Putting the watchdog maintainer
into cc.
-Andi
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-31 22:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-29 17:29 [patch 0/9] x86, xsave: xsave/xrstor support Suresh Siddha
2008-07-29 17:29 ` [patch 1/9] x86, xsave: xsave cpuid feature bits Suresh Siddha
2008-07-29 17:29 ` [patch 2/9] x86, xsave: enable xsave/xrstor on cpus with xsave support Suresh Siddha
2008-07-29 17:29 ` [patch 3/9] x86, xsave: context switch support using xsave/xrstor Suresh Siddha
2008-07-29 17:29 ` [patch 4/9] x86, xsave: dynamically allocate sigframes fpstate instead of static allocation Suresh Siddha
2008-07-29 17:29 ` [patch 5/9] x86, xsave: reorganization of signal save/restore fpstate code layout Suresh Siddha
2008-07-29 17:29 ` [patch 6/9] x86, xsave: xsave/xrstor specific routines Suresh Siddha
2008-07-29 17:29 ` [patch 7/9] x86, xsave: struct _fpstate extensions to include extended state information Suresh Siddha
2008-07-29 17:29 ` [patch 8/9] x86, xsave: save/restore the extended state context in sigframe Suresh Siddha
2008-07-29 17:29 ` [patch 9/9] x86, xsave: update xsave header bits during ptrace fpregs set Suresh Siddha
2008-07-29 23:09 ` [patch 0/9] x86, xsave: xsave/xrstor support H. Peter Anvin
2008-07-29 23:29 ` Suresh Siddha
2008-07-29 23:43 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-07-30 10:03 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-07-30 16:31 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-07-30 17:08 ` Suresh Siddha
2008-07-30 17:14 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-07-30 18:25 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-07-30 21:46 ` Suresh Siddha
2008-07-30 23:41 ` Suresh Siddha
2008-07-31 21:29 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-07-31 21:58 ` Suresh Siddha
2008-07-31 22:14 ` Andi Kleen
2008-07-31 22:19 ` Suresh Siddha
2008-07-31 22:36 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2008-07-31 22:38 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-07-31 22:50 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-08-01 2:06 ` Rene Herman
2008-08-01 9:51 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-08-01 14:27 ` Rene Herman
2008-08-01 14:49 ` Andi Kleen
2008-08-01 15:19 ` Rene Herman
2008-08-01 15:44 ` Andi Kleen
2008-08-01 16:03 ` Rene Herman
2008-07-31 22:48 ` Alan Cox
2008-07-31 22:17 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-08-13 11:00 ` Ingo Molnar
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