From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758565Ab1F1Pld (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Jun 2011 11:41:33 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:42546 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758761Ab1F1Phl (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Jun 2011 11:37:41 -0400 Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2011 11:37:31 -0400 From: Don Zickus To: Cyrill Gorcunov Cc: Stephane Eranian , Ingo Molnar , Lin Ming , Peter Zijlstra , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , Frederic Weisbecker , LKML Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf, x86: Add hw_watchdog_set_attr() in a sake of nmi-watchdog on P4 Message-ID: <20110628153731.GY3765@redhat.com> References: <20110623124918.GC13050@sun> <20110627190358.GQ3765@redhat.com> <20110627193201.GB1159@sun> <20110628152827.GE1159@sun> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20110628152827.GE1159@sun> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 07:28:27PM +0400, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote: > On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 05:24:36PM +0200, Stephane Eranian wrote: > ... > > > > > > Yeah, not the _best_ place. Not sure too where to put it, patches are welcome ;) > > > > > No matter what, this file has to remain in a file that's common to all arch. > > well, hard to say, Stephane, nmi-watchdog is x86 specific as far as I know. No, other arches have similar mechanisms. Actually I think sparc copied-n-pasted an old implementation of the nmi_watchdog on x86. It is just all we hear about is the watchdog on x86. Cheers, Don