[PATCH v2 2/4] watchdog: export watchdog_mutex and lockup_detector_reconfigure

Laurent Dufour ldufour at linux.ibm.com
Fri Jun 24 22:45:37 AEST 2022


On 24/06/2022, 11:37:23, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 14, 2022 at 03:54:12PM +0200, Laurent Dufour wrote:
>> The watchdog_mutex is exported to allow some variable to be changed under
>> its protection and prevent any conflict.
>> The lockup_detector_reconfigure() function is exported and is expected to
>> be called under the protection of watchdog_mutex.
> 
> Please provide an actual function accessor instead of directly touching
> a global lock.

Thanks Christoph,

I'll try to not touch to that mutex, if that's not doable, I'll create
function accessor as you're suggesting.



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