Re: [PATCH 4/4] watchdog: use suspend/resume interface in fixup_ht_bug()

From: Michal Hocko
Date: Tue Aug 04 2015 - 09:31:45 EST


On Sat 01-08-15 14:49:25, Ulrich Obergfell wrote:
[...]
> @@ -3368,7 +3368,10 @@ static __init int fixup_ht_bug(void)
> return 0;
> }
>
> - watchdog_nmi_disable_all();
> + if (watchdog_suspend() != 0) {
> + pr_info("failed to disable PMU erratum BJ122, BV98, HSD29 workaround\n");
> + return 0;
> + }

Is this really worth reporting to the log? What is an admin supposed to
do about it?
<looking into the code>
Ok, so kthread_park fails only when the kernel thread has already
exited. Can this ever happen during this call path?
--
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
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