sparc64: Fix reset hangs on Niagara systems.

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From: Linux Kernel Mailing List
Date: Monday, March 30, 2009 - 7:00 pm

Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/linus/ffaba674090f287afe0c44fd8d978c64c03581a8
Commit:     ffaba674090f287afe0c44fd8d978c64c03581a8
Parent:     07d43ba98621f08e252a48c96b258b4d572b0257
Author:     David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
AuthorDate: Sun Mar 29 15:40:33 2009 -0700
Committer:  David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
CommitDate: Sun Mar 29 15:40:33 2009 -0700

    sparc64: Fix reset hangs on Niagara systems.
    
    Hypervisor versions older than version 1.6.1 cannot handle
    leaving the profile counter overflow interrupt chirping
    when the system does a soft reset.
    
    So use a reboot notifier to shut off the NMI watchdog.
    
    Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
---
 arch/sparc/kernel/nmi.c |   23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/sparc/kernel/nmi.c b/arch/sparc/kernel/nmi.c
index f357722..2c0cc72 100644
--- a/arch/sparc/kernel/nmi.c
+++ b/arch/sparc/kernel/nmi.c
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
 #include <linux/module.h>
 #include <linux/kprobes.h>
 #include <linux/kernel_stat.h>
+#include <linux/reboot.h>
 #include <linux/slab.h>
 #include <linux/kdebug.h>
 #include <linux/delay.h>
@@ -206,13 +207,33 @@ void nmi_adjust_hz(unsigned int new_hz)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(nmi_adjust_hz);
 
+static int nmi_shutdown(struct notifier_block *nb, unsigned long cmd, void *p)
+{
+	on_each_cpu(stop_watchdog, NULL, 1);
+	return 0;
+}
+
+static struct notifier_block nmi_reboot_notifier = {
+	.notifier_call = nmi_shutdown,
+};
+
 int __init nmi_init(void)
 {
+	int err;
+
 	nmi_usable = 1;
 
 	on_each_cpu(start_watchdog, NULL, 1);
 
-	return check_nmi_watchdog();
+	err = check_nmi_watchdog();
+	if (!err) {
+		err = register_reboot_notifier(&nmi_reboot_notifier);
+		if (err) {
+			nmi_usable = 0;
+			on_each_cpu(stop_watchdog, NULL, 1);
+		}
+	}
+	return err;
 }
 
 static int __init setup_nmi_watchdog(char *str)
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