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Message-ID: <20150501134618.GJ98296@redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 1 May 2015 09:46:18 -0400
From: Don Zickus <dzickus@...hat.com>
To: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@...hip.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v10 2/3] watchdog: add watchdog_cpumask sysctl to assist
nohz
On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 04:09:52PM -0400, Chris Metcalf wrote:
> On 04/30/2015 04:00 PM, Don Zickus wrote:
> >On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 03:39:25PM -0400, Chris Metcalf wrote:
> >> if (err)
> >> pr_err("Failed to create watchdog threads, disabled\n");
> >>+ else {
> >>+ if (smpboot_update_cpumask_percpu_thread(
> >>+ &watchdog_threads, &watchdog_cpumask))
> >>+ pr_err("Failed to set cpumask for watchdog threads\n");
> >Stupid nitpick, this error message tells us the 'watchdog' threads caused
> >the cpumask failure, but ....
> >
> >>+ /*
> >>+ * Failure would be due to being unable to allocate
> >>+ * a temporary cpumask, so we are likely not in a
> >>+ * position to do much else to make things better.
> >>+ */
> >>+ if (smpboot_update_cpumask_percpu_thread(
> >>+ &watchdog_threads, &watchdog_cpumask) != 0)
> >>+ pr_err("cpumask update failed\n");
> >This one does not. :-( If there is a respin, I would suggest copying the
> >above message down here.
>
> There is that "#define pr_fmt(fmt)" at the top of the file that prefixes
> all the messages with "NMI watchdog: ", though. I think that's
> sufficient to make it clear what the second message is about.
> (The first message I wrote the way I did to be parallel with the
> message just before it, if the thread creation failed.)
Ah, yes. Nevermind. I keep forgetting about that. :-)
Cheers,
Don
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