Re: [PATCH 2/3] watchdog/softlockup: report the most time-consuming hardirq

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Wed Feb 14 2024 - 20:02:57 EST


On Wed, Feb 14 2024 at 15:39, Doug Anderson wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 14, 2024 at 3:36 PM Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Tue, Jan 23 2024 at 20:12, Bitao Hu wrote:
>> As a side note: While C does not allow proper encapsulation it's a non
>> starter to fiddle with the interrupt descriptor internals in random code
>> just because the compiler allows you to do so. While not enforced there
>> are clear boundaries and we went a long way to encapsulate this.
>
> I think you must have gotten dropped from all the future versions of
> this patch series when Bitao took my advice and started using
> interrupt counts instead of tracing. For what it's worth, the latest
> version can be found at:
>
> https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240214021430.87471-1-yaoma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Yes. I'm not on CC and for some stupid reason it evaded my LKML filters.

Let me find that thread and stare at it.

Thanks,

tglx