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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Ulrich Obergfell <uobergfe@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Jones <drjones@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
	dzickus@redhat.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, mingo@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] watchdog: control hard lockup detection default
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2014 13:45:47 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <53D0F1EB.9080504@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <146661093.17248776.1406202294303.JavaMail.zimbra@redhat.com>

Il 24/07/2014 13:44, Ulrich Obergfell ha scritto:
> > But this means that it is not possible to re-enable softlockup detection
> > only.  I think that should be the effect of echo 0 + echo 1, if
> > hardlockup detection was disabled by either the command line or patch 3.
>
> The idea was to give the user two options to override the effect of patch 3/3.
> Either via the kernel command line ('nmi_watchdog=') at boot time or via /proc
> ('echo 0' + 'echo 1') when the system is up and running.

I think the kernel command line is enough; another alternative is to
split the nmi_watchdog /proc entry in two.

Paolo

  reply	other threads:[~2014-07-24 11:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-07-24 10:13 [PATCH 0/3] watchdog: kvm: disable hard lockup detection by default Andrew Jones
2014-07-24 10:13 ` [PATCH 1/3] watchdog: fix print-once on enable Andrew Jones
2014-07-24 10:13 ` [PATCH 2/3] watchdog: control hard lockup detection default Andrew Jones
2014-07-24 10:46   ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-07-24 11:18     ` Ulrich Obergfell
2014-07-24 11:26       ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-07-24 11:44         ` Ulrich Obergfell
2014-07-24 11:45           ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2014-07-24 12:02             ` Ulrich Obergfell
2014-07-25  8:32   ` Ulrich Obergfell
2014-07-25 11:25     ` Andrew Jones
2014-07-30 13:43       ` Don Zickus
2014-07-30 14:16         ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-07-30 17:07           ` Don Zickus
2014-08-08 13:53   ` [PATCH v2 " Andrew Jones
2014-07-24 10:13 ` [PATCH 3/3] kvm: ensure hard lockup detection is disabled by default Andrew Jones

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