On Wed, 2011-06-22 at 19:16 +0200, Gilles Chanteperdrix wrote: > On 05/19/2011 10:29 PM, Philippe Gerum wrote: > > On Thu, 2011-05-19 at 20:36 +0200, Jan Kiszka wrote: > >> On 2011-05-19 20:15, Gilles Chanteperdrix wrote: > >>> On 05/19/2011 03:58 PM, Philippe Gerum wrote: > >>>> For this reason, I'm considering issuing a patch for a complete removal > >>>> of the NMI latency watchdog code in Xenomai 2.6.x, disabling the feature > >>>> for 2.6.38 kernels and above in 2.5.x. > >>>> > >>>> Comments welcome. > >>> > >>> I am in the same case as you: I no longer use Xeno's NMI watchdog, so I > >>> agree to get rid of it. > >> > >> Yeah. The last time we wanted to use it get more information about a > >> hard hang, the CPU we used was not supported. > >> > >> Philippe, did you test the Linux watchdog already, if it generate proper > >> results on artificial Xenomai lockups on a single core? > > > > This works provided we tell the pipeline to enter printk-sync mode when > > the watchdog kicks. So I'd say that we could probably do a better job in > > making the pipeline core smarter wrt NMI watchdog context handling than > > asking Xenomai to dup the mainline code for having its own NMI handling. > > If nobody disagrees, I am removing this code from -head. Now. >
Ack. -- Philippe. _______________________________________________ Xenomai-core mailing list Xenomai-core@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/xenomai-core
