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Commit cf454aec authored by Don Zickus's avatar Don Zickus Committed by Ingo Molnar
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nmi_watchdog: Fallback to software events when no hardware pmu detected



Not all arches have a PMU or have perf_event support for their
PMU.  The nmi_watchdog will fail in those cases.  Fallback to
using software events to generate nmi_watchdog traffic with
local apic interrupts.

Tested on a Pentium4 and it worked as expected, excepting for
detecting cpu lockups.

The problem with using software events as a cpu lock up detector
is the nmi_watchdog uses the logic that if local apic interrupts
stop incrementing then the cpu is probably locked up.  But with
software events we use the local apic to trigger the
nmi_watchdog callback to see if local apic interrupts are still
firing, which obviously they are otherwise we wouldn't have been
triggered.

The algorithm to detect cpu lock ups is the same as the old
nmi_watchdog. Perhaps we need to find a better way to detect
lock ups?

Signed-off-by: default avatarDon Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: gorcunov@gmail.com
Cc: aris@redhat.com
LKML-Reference: <1266013161-31197-3-git-send-email-dzickus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
parent 504d7cf1
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