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

From: Don Zickus
Date: Fri Feb 06 2015 - 09:12:26 EST


On Thu, Feb 05, 2015 at 03:22:30PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Feb 2015 15:40:16 -0500 Don Zickus <dzickus@xxxxxxxxxx> 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
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