On Mon, 6 Feb 2017, Robert Richter wrote: > On 06.02.17 13:49:37, Borislav Petkov wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 06, 2017 at 01:44:48PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > Yeah, if for some whatever reason perf locks up while running perf stat > > > as root, > > > so I'd keep the option, as a general principle. :-/ > > > > --dont-disable-hwdt it is. > > Isn't there the danger the previous watchdog state is never restored > if for some reason perf got killed? So maybe have some other task > running that restores it once perf is gone.
minor issue, but is it possibly to do anything about dmesg spam? From what I recall every time you enable and disable the watchdog the kernel prints a message. Makes for messy logs, especially when you run the perf_fuzzer as root. Vince
