From faa4cfa6b334fc07c3386e620a2fb55de508c077 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?utf8?q?Bj=C3=B6rn=20Steinbrink?= Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2007 10:15:55 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] i386: fix NMI watchdog not reserving its MSRs MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit At system boot time, the NMI watchdog no longer reserved its MSRs, allowing other subsystems to mess with them. Fix that. Signed-off-by: Björn Steinbrink Cc: Andi Kleen Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- arch/i386/kernel/cpu/perfctr-watchdog.c | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/perfctr-watchdog.c b/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/perfctr-watchdog.c index 2b04c8f1db62..8343244b72c4 100644 --- a/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/perfctr-watchdog.c +++ b/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/perfctr-watchdog.c @@ -614,6 +614,12 @@ int lapic_watchdog_init(unsigned nmi_hz) probe_nmi_watchdog(); if (!wd_ops) return -1; + + if (!wd_ops->reserve()) { + printk(KERN_ERR + "NMI watchdog: cannot reserve perfctrs\n"); + return -1; + } } if (!(wd_ops->setup(nmi_hz))) { -- 2.30.2