On Fri 2023-05-26 18:41:36, Douglas Anderson wrote:
> In the patch ("watchdog/hardlockup: detect hard lockups using
> secondary (buddy) CPUs"), we added a call from the common watchdog.c
> file into the buddy. That call could be done more cleanly.
> Specifically:
> 1. If we move the call into watchdog_hardlockup_kick() then it keeps
> watchdog_timer_fn() simpler.
> 2. We don't need to pass an "unsigned long" to the buddy for the timer
> count. In the patch ("watchdog/hardlockup: add a "cpu" param to
> watchdog_hardlockup_check()") the count was changed to "atomic_t"
> which is backed by an int, so we should match types.
>
> Suggested-by: Petr Mladek <pmla...@suse.com>
> Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson <diand...@chromium.org>
The change looks fine:
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmla...@suse.com>
That said, I would prefer to squash it into the patch ("watchdog/hardlockup:
detect hard lockups using secondary (buddy) CPUs"). It would remove
some back and forth churn in the git history. But it is up to Andrew.
Best Regards,
Petr
