linux-kernel - [124/152] watchdog: Improve initialisation error message and documentation

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Date:	Wed, 05 Jan 2011 16:23:43 -0800
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...nel.org
Cc:	stable-review@...nel.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk,
	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>, 599368@...s.debian.org,
	608138@...s.debian.org, Don Zickus <dzickus@...hat.com>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Subject: [124/152] watchdog: Improve initialisation error message and documentation

2.6.36-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let us know.

------------------

From: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>

commit 551423748a4eba55f2eb0fc250d757986471f187 upstream.

The error message 'NMI watchdog failed to create perf event...'
does not make it clear that this is a fatal error for the
watchdog.  It also currently prints the error value as a
pointer, rather than extracting the error code with PTR_ERR().
Fix that.

Add a note to the description of the 'nowatchdog' kernel
parameter to associate it with this message.

Reported-by: Cesare Leonardi <celeonar@...il.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
Cc: 599368@...s.debian.org
Cc: 608138@...s.debian.org
Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@...hat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
LKML-Reference: <1294009362.3167.126.camel@...alhost>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>

---
 Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt |    2 +-
 kernel/watchdog.c                   |    3 ++-
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -1745,7 +1745,7 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters.
 
 	nousb		[USB] Disable the USB subsystem
 
-	nowatchdog	[KNL] Disable the lockup detector.
+	nowatchdog	[KNL] Disable the lockup detector (NMI watchdog).
 
 	nowb		[ARM]
 
--- a/kernel/watchdog.c
+++ b/kernel/watchdog.c
@@ -377,7 +377,8 @@ static int watchdog_nmi_enable(int cpu)
 		goto out_save;
 	}
 
-	printk(KERN_ERR "NMI watchdog failed to create perf event on cpu%i: %p\n", cpu, event);
+	printk(KERN_ERR "NMI watchdog disabled for cpu%i: unable to create perf event: %ld\n",
+	       cpu, PTR_ERR(event));
 	return -1;
 
 	/* success path */


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