Andrew Morton wrote: > On Fri, 17 Nov 2006 10:59:07 +0100 > Mikael Pettersson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Andrew Morton writes: >> > On Thu, 16 Nov 2006 11:55:46 +0100 >> > Mikael Pettersson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > >> > > Andrew Morton writes: >> > > > Surely the appropriate behaviour is to allow oprofile to steal the >> NMI and >> > > > to then put the NMI back to doing the watchdog thing after oprofile >> has >> > > > finished with it. >> > > >> > > Which is _exactly_ what pre-2.6.19-rc1 kernels did. I implemented >> > > the in-kernel API allowing real performance counter drivers like >> > > oprofile (and perfctr) to claim the HW from the NMI watchdog, >> > > do their work, and then release it which resumed the watchdog. >> > >> > OK. But from Andi's comments it seems that the NMI watchdog was failing >> to >> > resume its operation. >> >> It certainly worked when I originally implemented it. If it didn't work >> that way before 2.6.19-rc1 butchered it then that would have been a bug >> that should have been fixed. > > Oh. OK. > > Meanwhile, 2.6.19-rc6 remains unfixed. > Has anyone verified that nmi watchdog works at all in 2.6.19-rc6? I haven't built a kernel since rc2, other things have been taking my time.
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