Re: [PATCH] [Watchdog][Trivial] Added comments to explainwatchdog_disabled variable

From: anish kumar
Date: Fri Feb 01 2013 - 08:50:38 EST


Please ignore this patch.
On Fri, 2013-02-01 at 19:03 +0530, anish kumar wrote:
> From: anish kumar <anish198519851985@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> This watchdog_disabled flag is bit of cryptic.Howerver it's usefullnes is multifold.
> Uses are:
> 1. Check if smpboot_register_percpu_thread function passed.
> 2. Makes sure that user enables and disables the watchdog in sequence
> i.e. enable watchdog->disable watchdog->enable watchdog
> Unlike enable watchdog->enable watchdog which is wrong.
>
> Signed-off-by: anish kumar <anish198519851985@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> kernel/watchdog.c | 1 +
> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/watchdog.c b/kernel/watchdog.c
> index 75a2ab3..6ef638b 100644
> --- a/kernel/watchdog.c
> +++ b/kernel/watchdog.c
> @@ -155,6 +155,7 @@ void touch_all_softlockup_watchdogs(void)
> for_each_online_cpu(cpu)
> per_cpu(watchdog_touch_ts, cpu) = 0;
> }
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(touch_all_softlockup_watchdogs);
>
> #ifdef CONFIG_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR
> void touch_nmi_watchdog(void)


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