linux/kernel
Ben Hutchings 551423748a watchdog: Improve initialisation error message and documentation
The error message 'NMI watchdog failed to create perf event...'
does not make it clear that this is a fatal error for the
watchdog.  It also currently prints the error value as a
pointer, rather than extracting the error code with PTR_ERR().
Fix that.

Add a note to the description of the 'nowatchdog' kernel
parameter to associate it with this message.

Reported-by: Cesare Leonardi <celeonar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Cc: 599368@bugs.debian.org
Cc: 608138@bugs.debian.org
Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org> # .37.x and later
LKML-Reference: <1294009362.3167.126.camel@localhost>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-01-03 05:25:52 +01:00
..
debug kdb: fix crash when KDB_BASE_CMD_MAX is exceeded 2010-11-17 13:54:57 -06:00
gcov
irq genirq: Fix incorrect proc spurious output 2010-12-01 08:44:26 +01:00
power PM / Hibernate: Restore old swap signature to avoid user space breakage 2010-12-16 17:08:58 +01:00
time
trace ring_buffer: Off-by-one and duplicate events in ring_buffer_read_page 2010-12-23 12:09:30 -05:00
.gitignore
acct.c
async.c
audit.c audit: Use rcu for task lookup protection 2010-10-30 08:45:42 -04:00
audit.h audit: make functions static 2010-10-30 01:42:19 -04:00
audit_tree.c in untag_chunk() we need to do alloc_chunk() a bit earlier 2010-10-30 02:18:32 -04:00
audit_watch.c audit: make functions static 2010-10-30 01:42:19 -04:00
auditfilter.c Audit: add support to match lsm labels on user audit messages 2010-10-30 01:41:57 -04:00
auditsc.c audit mmap 2010-10-30 08:45:43 -04:00
backtracetest.c
bounds.c
capability.c
cgroup.c convert cgroup and cpuset 2010-10-29 04:17:06 -04:00
cgroup_freezer.c cgroup_freezer: update_freezer_state() does incorrect state transitions 2010-10-27 18:03:08 -07:00
compat.c
configs.c
cpu.c
cpuset.c convert cgroup and cpuset 2010-10-29 04:17:06 -04:00
cred.c signals: move cred_guard_mutex from task_struct to signal_struct 2010-10-27 18:03:12 -07:00
delayacct.c
dma.c
elfcore.c
exec_domain.c
exit.c do_exit(): make sure that we run with get_fs() == USER_DS 2010-12-02 14:51:16 -08:00
extable.c
fork.c Sched: fix skip_clock_update optimization 2010-12-08 20:15:06 +01:00
freezer.c
futex.c futex: Address compiler warnings in exit_robust_list 2010-11-10 13:27:50 +01:00
futex_compat.c futex: Address compiler warnings in exit_robust_list 2010-11-10 13:27:50 +01:00
groups.c
hrtimer.c
hung_task.c
hw_breakpoint.c perf,hw_breakpoint: Initialize hardware api earlier 2010-11-12 14:51:55 +01:00
irq_work.c irq_work: Drop cmpxchg() result 2010-11-18 13:18:47 +01:00
itimer.c
jump_label.c jump label: Make arch_jump_label_text_poke_early() optional 2010-10-29 12:56:13 -04:00
kallsyms.c Revert "kernel: make /proc/kallsyms mode 400 to reduce ease of attacking" 2010-11-19 11:54:40 -08:00
Kconfig.freezer
Kconfig.hz
Kconfig.locks
Kconfig.preempt
kexec.c use clear_page()/copy_page() in favor of memset()/memcpy() on whole pages 2010-10-26 16:52:13 -07:00
kfifo.c
kmod.c
kprobes.c jump label: Fix error with preempt disable holding mutex 2010-10-29 12:55:55 -04:00
ksysfs.c
kthread.c kthread_work: make lockdep happy 2010-12-22 10:27:53 +01:00
latencytop.c latencytop: fix per task accumulator 2010-11-12 07:55:31 -08:00
lockdep.c
lockdep_internals.h
lockdep_proc.c
lockdep_states.h
Makefile
module.c tracing: Fix module use of trace_bprintk() 2010-11-10 22:19:24 -05:00
mutex-debug.c
mutex-debug.h
mutex.c
mutex.h
notifier.c
ns_cgroup.c cgroup: notify ns_cgroup deprecated 2010-10-27 18:03:09 -07:00
nsproxy.c
padata.c
panic.c
params.c
perf_event.c perf: Fix off by one in perf_swevent_init() 2010-12-16 11:14:31 +01:00
pid.c
pid_namespace.c
pm_qos_params.c PM / PM QoS: Fix reversed min and max 2010-11-15 22:45:22 +01:00
posix-cpu-timers.c posix-cpu-timers: Rcu_read_lock/unlock protect find_task_by_vpid call 2010-11-10 13:07:06 +01:00
posix-timers.c
printk.c nohz: Fix printk_needs_cpu() return value on offline cpus 2010-11-26 15:03:12 +01:00
profile.c
ptrace.c signals: move cred_guard_mutex from task_struct to signal_struct 2010-10-27 18:03:12 -07:00
range.c kernel/range.c: fix clean_sort_range() for the case of full array 2010-11-12 07:55:31 -08:00
rcupdate.c
rcutiny.c
rcutiny_plugin.h
rcutorture.c
rcutree.c
rcutree.h
rcutree_plugin.h
rcutree_trace.c
relay.c Clean up relay_alloc_page_array() slightly by using vzalloc rather than vmalloc and memset 2010-11-05 08:21:34 -07:00
res_counter.c
resource.c resources: add arch hook for preventing allocation in reserved areas 2010-12-17 10:01:09 -08:00
rtmutex-debug.c
rtmutex-debug.h
rtmutex-tester.c
rtmutex.c
rtmutex.h
rtmutex_common.h
rwsem.c
sched.c sched: Remove debugging check 2010-12-19 23:24:27 +01:00
sched_clock.c
sched_cpupri.c
sched_cpupri.h
sched_debug.c
sched_fair.c sched: Fix idle balancing 2010-11-18 13:12:33 +01:00
sched_features.h
sched_idletask.c
sched_rt.c
sched_stats.h sched_stat: Update sched_info_queue/dequeue() code comments 2010-10-24 13:29:01 +02:00
sched_stoptask.c sched: Fix cross-sched-class wakeup preemption 2010-11-11 14:37:23 +01:00
seccomp.c
semaphore.c
signal.c signals: annotate lock context change on ptrace_stop() 2010-10-27 18:03:12 -07:00
smp.c Typedef SMP call function pointer 2010-10-27 17:28:36 +01:00
softirq.c Merge branch 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2010-10-27 18:48:00 -07:00
spinlock.c
srcu.c
stacktrace.c
stop_machine.c stop_machine: convert cpu notifier to return encapsulate errno value 2010-10-26 16:52:15 -07:00
sys.c
sys_ni.c
sysctl.c kernel/sysctl.c: Fix build failure with !CONFIG_PRINTK 2010-11-16 07:56:09 -08:00
sysctl_binary.c
sysctl_check.c
taskstats.c taskstats: pad taskstats netlink response for aligment issues on ia64 2010-12-22 19:43:34 -08:00
test_kprobes.c
time.c
timeconst.pl
timer.c nohz: Fix get_next_timer_interrupt() vs cpu hotplug 2010-12-08 20:15:07 +01:00
tracepoint.c
tsacct.c taskstats: use real microsecond granularity for CPU times 2010-10-27 18:03:17 -07:00
uid16.c
up.c
user-return-notifier.c
user.c fix freeing user_struct in user cache 2010-12-29 11:31:38 -08:00
user_namespace.c
utsname.c
utsname_sysctl.c
wait.c docbook: add more wait/wake/completion to device-drivers docbook 2010-10-26 17:32:41 -07:00
watchdog.c watchdog: Improve initialisation error message and documentation 2011-01-03 05:25:52 +01:00
workqueue.c workqueue: It is likely that WORKER_NOT_RUNNING is true 2010-12-14 15:05:54 +01:00
workqueue_sched.h