From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751793Ab0KXOEL (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Nov 2010 09:04:11 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:54489 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751013Ab0KXOEJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Nov 2010 09:04:09 -0500 Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2010 09:03:55 -0500 From: Don Zickus To: Cyrill Gorcunov Cc: Ingo Molnar , fweisbec@gmail.com, LKML , yinghai@kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3 v2] x86: Remove old nmi_watchdog Message-ID: <20101124140355.GB22165@redhat.com> References: <1290540725-2911-1-git-send-email-dzickus@redhat.com> <20101123214957.GD1839@lenovo> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20101123214957.GD1839@lenovo> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-08-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 12:49:57AM +0300, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote: > On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 02:32:02PM -0500, Don Zickus wrote: > > Ingo asked me to remove the old nmi_watchdog to minimize the amount of > > code duplication we have to do for recent fixes. All the functionality > > needed by the old nmi watchdog should be available in perf now. > > > > Hi Don, if I understand correctly not many things are changed from previous > time, some tune ups here and there, right? Right. Just the addition of the first patch to preserve unknown_nmi_panic, some compiler breakage fix, and documentation stuff. Cheers, Don