Re: [PATCH] [20/58] x86: Always probe the NMI watchdog

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Thu Jul 19 2007 - 06:43:24 EST


On Thursday 19 July 2007 12:24:05 BjÃrn Steinbrink wrote:
> On 2007.07.19 11:55:05 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> >
> > From: [** iso-8859-1 charset **] BjörnSteinbrink <B.Steinbrink@xxxxxx>
> >
> > The performance counter allocator relies on the nmi watchdog being
> > probed, so we have to do that even if the watchdog is not enabled.
>
> Are you going to revert your fixes to the msr->bit conversions? Or is
> this patch still required with them in place? I actually like your fix,
> as it also fixes the semantics of single_msr_reserve() (see other mail).
>
> So, can we just drop this one?

Sorry, i already dropped it during final review; but it was still
in the list of patches to send out for review.

-Andi
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