From: Graf Yang Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 09:00:32 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Blackfin: allow NMI watchdog to be used w/RETN as a scratch reg X-Git-Url: https://git.karo-electronics.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=c429886a7091f9d26dee7d01c20fd822f62c35e0;p=linux-beck.git Blackfin: allow NMI watchdog to be used w/RETN as a scratch reg NMIs are not safe to return from because many anomaly workarounds are implemented by disabling interrupts. The NMI obviously violates this assumption. Since the NMI watchdog never returns, we don't have to worry about it clobbering RETN when it is being used as a scratch register with the exception stack. Signed-off-by: Graf Yang Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger --- diff --git a/arch/blackfin/Kconfig.debug b/arch/blackfin/Kconfig.debug index 3c49f76b37bc..d1825cb24768 100644 --- a/arch/blackfin/Kconfig.debug +++ b/arch/blackfin/Kconfig.debug @@ -238,7 +238,7 @@ config EARLY_PRINTK config NMI_WATCHDOG bool "Enable NMI watchdog to help debugging lockup on SMP" default n - depends on (SMP && !BFIN_SCRATCH_REG_RETN) + depends on SMP help If any CPU in the system does not execute the period local timer interrupt for more than 5 seconds, then the NMI handler dumps debug