From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752080AbaHRTAt (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Aug 2014 15:00:49 -0400 Received: from mail-we0-f173.google.com ([74.125.82.173]:45350 "EHLO mail-we0-f173.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751833AbaHRTAr (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Aug 2014 15:00:47 -0400 Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2014 21:00:42 +0200 From: Ingo Molnar To: Don Zickus Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, pbonzini@redhat.com, mingo@redhat.com, LKML , Ulrich Obergfell , Andrew Jones Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] watchdog: control hard lockup detection default Message-ID: <20140818190042.GA5074@gmail.com> References: <1407768567-171794-1-git-send-email-dzickus@redhat.com> <1407768567-171794-5-git-send-email-dzickus@redhat.com> <20140818091644.GE25495@gmail.com> <20140818151737.GT49576@redhat.com> <20140818180735.GB4540@gmail.com> <20140818185332.GC49576@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20140818185332.GC49576@redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * Don Zickus wrote: > > 2) > > > > The softlockup and hardlockup detection control variables > > should be in separate flags, inside and outside the kernel > > - they (should) not relate to each other. > > They did because years ago I thought we wanted to keep them > as one entity instead of two. I would have to re-work the > code to do this (and add more knobs). > > I presume you would want those changes done before taking > this patchset? Yeah, fixing/cleaning up things would be nice before spreading the pain via new features/control mechanisms. Thanks, Ingo