watchdog/hardlockup/perf: Implement init time perf validation
authorThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tue, 12 Sep 2017 19:37:18 +0000 (21:37 +0200)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Thu, 14 Sep 2017 09:41:08 +0000 (11:41 +0200)
commit178b9f7a36d2c74a38274b66dd89f53611298a19
tree6ea60b3626a552baa282502b62cd19b4429889bf
parent091549858ed881e5f3054374af4f5b1cac681d50
watchdog/hardlockup/perf: Implement init time perf validation

The watchdog tries to create perf events even after it figured out that
perf is not functional or the requested event is not supported.

That's braindead as this can be done once at init time and if not supported
the NMI watchdog can be turned off unconditonally.

Implement the perf hardlockup detector functionality for that. This creates
a new event create function, which will replace the unholy mess of the
existing one in later patches.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@mellanox.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Sebastian Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ulrich Obergfell <uobergfe@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170912194148.019090547@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
include/linux/nmi.h
kernel/watchdog_hld.c