linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] [Watchdog][Trivial] Added comments to explain watchdog

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Date:	Fri, 01 Feb 2013 19:20:18 +0530
From:	anish kumar <anish198519851985@...il.com>
To:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Cc:	dzickus@...hat.com, tglx@...utronix.de, mingo@...nel.org,
	chuansheng.liu@...el.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [Watchdog][Trivial] Added comments to explain
 watchdog_disabled variable

Please ignore this patch.
On Fri, 2013-02-01 at 19:03 +0530, anish kumar wrote:
> From: anish kumar <anish198519851985@...il.com>
> 
> This watchdog_disabled flag is bit of cryptic.Howerver it's usefullnes is multifold.
> Uses are:
> 1. Check if smpboot_register_percpu_thread function passed.
> 2. Makes sure that user enables and disables the watchdog in sequence
>    i.e. enable watchdog->disable watchdog->enable watchdog
>    Unlike enable watchdog->enable watchdog which is wrong.
> 
> Signed-off-by: anish kumar <anish198519851985@...il.com>
> ---
>  kernel/watchdog.c |    1 +
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/watchdog.c b/kernel/watchdog.c
> index 75a2ab3..6ef638b 100644
> --- a/kernel/watchdog.c
> +++ b/kernel/watchdog.c
> @@ -155,6 +155,7 @@ void touch_all_softlockup_watchdogs(void)
>  	for_each_online_cpu(cpu)
>  		per_cpu(watchdog_touch_ts, cpu) = 0;
>  }
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(touch_all_softlockup_watchdogs);
>  
>  #ifdef CONFIG_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR
>  void touch_nmi_watchdog(void)


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