linux-kernel - Re: [discuss] Re: 2.6.19-rc5: known regressions (v3)

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Message-ID: <455FC9E2.3080504@tmr.com>
Date:	Sat, 18 Nov 2006 22:05:06 -0500
From:	Bill Davidsen <davidsen@....com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
CC:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>,
	discuss@...-64.org, William Cohen <wcohen@...hat.com>,
	Komuro <komurojun-mbn@...ty.com>,
	Ernst Herzberg <earny@...4u.de>,
	Andre Noll <maan@...temlinux.org>,
	oprofile-list@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>,
	linux-usb-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, phil.el@...adoo.fr,
	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>,
	linux-pci@...ey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz,
	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...l.org>,
	Prakash Punnoor <prakash@...noor.de>,
	Len Brown <len.brown@...el.com>,
	Alex Romosan <romosan@...orax.lbl.gov>, gregkh@...e.de,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@...l.ru>
Subject: Re: [discuss] Re: 2.6.19-rc5: known regressions (v3)

Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Nov 2006 10:59:07 +0100
> Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@...uu.se> wrote:
> 
>> Andrew Morton writes:
>>  > On Thu, 16 Nov 2006 11:55:46 +0100
>>  > Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@...uu.se> 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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