Re: [PATCH 0/9] watchdog: internally split softlockup and hardlockup

[Don Zickus]

Hi Andrew,

Poke.  What can I do to move this patch forward?

Cheers,
Don

On Tue, Nov 04, 2014 at 11:20:15AM -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.
> 
> Tested by Uli and myself.
> 
> Ulrich Obergfell (9):
>   watchdog: new definitions and variables, initialization
>   watchdog: introduce the proc_watchdog_update() function
>   watchdog: move definition of 'watchdog_proc_mutex' outside of
>     proc_dowatchdog()
>   watchdog: introduce the proc_watchdog_common() function
>   watchdog: introduce separate handlers for parameters in
>     /proc/sys/kernel
>   watchdog: implement error handling for failure to set up hardware
>     perf events
>   watchdog: enable the new user interface of the watchdog mechanism
>   watchdog: clean up some function names and arguments
>   watchdog: introduce the hardlockup_detector_disable() function
> 
>  arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c |    2 +-
>  include/linux/nmi.h   |   21 ++--
>  kernel/sysctl.c       |   35 +++++--
>  kernel/watchdog.c     |  277 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------
>  4 files changed, 240 insertions(+), 95 deletions(-)
> 
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