Re: introduce NMI_AUTO as nmi_watchdog option

From: Cyrill Gorcunov
Date: Mon Jan 11 2010 - 15:27:38 EST


On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 02:16:33PM -0500, Don Zickus wrote:
> Hi Ingo,
>
...
> I was going to jump in and try to do this work. I wanted to make sure
> what you were looking for here. When you say convert nmi watchdog to perf
> events, I assume you mean merging over the bits of perfctr-watchdog.c to
> perf_events.c, modify nmi.c to just register as a normal perf event and
> probably cleanup the oprofile stuff to match, correct?
>
> Cheers,
> Don
>

As far as I know -- converting perfctr-watchdog.c to into perfevents
style would be quite a desirable feature. But I still didn't manage to
find time for this task :( If you're interested to start this work
-- that would be just great!

-- Cyrill
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