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authorBjörn Steinbrink <B.Steinbrink@gmx.de>2007-06-16 10:15:55 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-06-16 13:16:15 -0700
commitfaa4cfa6b334fc07c3386e620a2fb55de508c077 (patch)
treea9b38265f7f9ea71f9489ec9d69c5f98d843d037 /arch/i386
parent38ad2ed08d89a4b830a03131fa73e4ef3e98d9f4 (diff)
i386: fix NMI watchdog not reserving its MSRs
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 <B.Steinbrink@gmx.de> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/i386')
-rw-r--r--arch/i386/kernel/cpu/perfctr-watchdog.c6
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/perfctr-watchdog.c b/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/perfctr-watchdog.c
index 2b04c8f1db6..8343244b72c 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))) {