linux-kernel - Re: NMI watchdog setup_lapic_nmi

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Date:	Wed, 8 Oct 2008 01:57:45 +0200
From:	"stephane eranian" <eranian@...glemail.com>
To:	"Andi Kleen" <andi@...stfloor.org>
Cc:	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, mingo@...e.hu, tglx@...utronix.de,
	"Shaohua Li" <shaohua.li@...el.com>
Subject: Re: NMI watchdog setup_lapic_nmi_watchdog() problem

Andi,

On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 1:45 AM, Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org> wrote:
>> If you remove the 'cheap hack', disabling/enabling works. That's why
>> I'd like to better
>> understand was is going on with suspend/resume.
>
> The hack was done because there wasn't an available CPU global enable flag
> for the nmi watchdog. So resume would possible reenable it unnecessarily
> If there was one it could just check that.
>
I am not sure what you mean by 'CPU global enable flag'.

Are you talking about a per-cpu variable or a truly global variable?

Isn't that what nmi_active is today?

As for per-cpu, there is wd_enabled.
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