i386: speedup touch_nmi_watchdog

Avoid dirtying remote cpu's memory if it already has the correct value.

Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek <konrad@darnok.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/arch/i386/kernel/nmi.c b/arch/i386/kernel/nmi.c
index fba121f7973..03b7f5584d7 100644
--- a/arch/i386/kernel/nmi.c
+++ b/arch/i386/kernel/nmi.c
@@ -295,7 +295,7 @@ static unsigned int
         last_irq_sums [NR_CPUS],
         alert_counter [NR_CPUS];
 
-void touch_nmi_watchdog (void)
+void touch_nmi_watchdog(void)
 {
         if (nmi_watchdog > 0) {
                 unsigned cpu;
@@ -304,8 +304,10 @@ void touch_nmi_watchdog (void)
                  * Just reset the alert counters, (other CPUs might be
                  * spinning on locks we hold):
                  */
-                for_each_present_cpu (cpu)
-                        alert_counter[cpu] = 0;
+                for_each_present_cpu(cpu) {
+                        if (alert_counter[cpu])
+                                alert_counter[cpu] = 0;
+                }
         }
 
         /*