From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754566AbbBFOMX (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Feb 2015 09:12:23 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:44497 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751151AbbBFOMV (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Feb 2015 09:12:21 -0500 Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2015 09:12:17 -0500 From: Don Zickus To: Andrew Morton Cc: LKML Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/9] watchdog: internally split softlockup and hardlockup Message-ID: <20150206141217.GU234357@redhat.com> References: <1423168825-156238-1-git-send-email-dzickus@redhat.com> <20150205152230.e978767c9c5eeb3b97be99f8@linux-foundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20150205152230.e978767c9c5eeb3b97be99f8@linux-foundation.org> 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 Thu, Feb 05, 2015 at 03:22:30PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Thu, 5 Feb 2015 15:40:16 -0500 Don Zickus wrote: > > > The hardlockup and softockup had always been tied together. Due to the request > > of KVM folks, they had a need to have one enabled but not the other. > > Internally rework the code to split things apart more cleanly. > > > > There is a bunch of churn here, but the end result should be code that should > > be easier to maintain and fix without knowing the internals of what is going > > on. > > We're late in -rc7, which is not a good time for "a bunch of churn". > So I'll park this series for consideration after 3.19 has been > released. I'll let you know if it has seriously bitrotted by then. Thanks! Cheers, Don