Re: [patch 8/8] Add abilty to enable/disable nmi watchdog from sysfs

[Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>]

On Tuesday 09 May 2006 22:50, dzickus wrote:
> 
> Adds a new /proc/sys/kernel/nmi call that will enable/disable the nmi
> watchdog.

The subject is wrong i think - sysctl != sysfs.

And shouldn't that be called nmi_watchdog? 

> 
> Signed-off-by:  Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
> 
> Index: linux-don/arch/i386/kernel/nmi.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-don.orig/arch/i386/kernel/nmi.c
> +++ linux-don/arch/i386/kernel/nmi.c
> @@ -845,6 +845,56 @@ static int unknown_nmi_panic_callback(st
>  	return 0;
>  }
>  
> +/*
> + * proc handler for /proc/sys/kernel/nmi
> + */
> +int proc_nmi_enabled(struct ctl_table *table, int write, struct file *file,
> +			void __user *buffer, size_t *length, loff_t *ppos)
> +{
> +	int old_state;
> +
> +	nmi_watchdog_enabled = (atomic_read(&nmi_active) > 0) ? 1 : 0;
> +	old_state = nmi_watchdog_enabled;
> +	proc_dointvec(table, write, file, buffer, length, ppos);
> +	if (!!old_state == !!nmi_watchdog_enabled)
> +		return 0;
> +
> +	if (atomic_read(&nmi_active) < 0) {
> +		printk( KERN_WARNING "NMI watchdog is permanently disabled\n");
> +		return 0;
> +	}

The returns should be probably -EIO or similar. Same further down.

> +
> +	if (nmi_watchdog == NMI_DEFAULT) {
> +		if (nmi_known_cpu() > 0)
> +			nmi_watchdog = NMI_LOCAL_APIC;
> +		else
> +			nmi_watchdog = NMI_IO_APIC;
> +	}
> +
> +	if (nmi_watchdog == NMI_LOCAL_APIC)
> +	{

Move the { up

Anyways I fixed these up myself, no need to resubmit.

-Andi
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