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| author | Wang Qing <[email protected]> | 2021-06-28 19:34:24 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> | 2021-06-29 10:53:46 -0700 |
| commit | 256f7a6791e8f19bafa1d702f69a6a6ba16250e3 (patch) | |
| tree | 5d9d4619746da00e0210734ed957a6e348f53e1c | |
| parent | e55fda8cdcba2cb3d5d46ae5fcd5f243f8b70d6e (diff) | |
doc: watchdog: modify the doc related to "watchdog/%u"
"watchdog/%u" threads has be replaced by cpu_stop_work. The current
description is extremely misleading.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Wang Qing <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <[email protected]>
Cc: "Guilherme G. Piccoli" <[email protected]>
Cc: Joe Perches <[email protected]>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <[email protected]>
Cc: Kees Cook <[email protected]>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <[email protected]>
Cc: Qais Yousef <[email protected]>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <[email protected]>
Cc: Santosh Sivaraj <[email protected]>
Cc: Stephen Kitt <[email protected]>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst | 10 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst index 68b21395a743..04c79017814b 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst @@ -1283,11 +1283,11 @@ This parameter can be used to control the soft lockup detector. = ================================= The soft lockup detector monitors CPUs for threads that are hogging the CPUs -without rescheduling voluntarily, and thus prevent the 'watchdog/N' threads -from running. The mechanism depends on the CPUs ability to respond to timer -interrupts which are needed for the 'watchdog/N' threads to be woken up by -the watchdog timer function, otherwise the NMI watchdog — if enabled — can -detect a hard lockup condition. +without rescheduling voluntarily, and thus prevent the 'migration/N' threads +from running, causing the watchdog work fail to execute. The mechanism depends +on the CPUs ability to respond to timer interrupts which are needed for the +watchdog work to be queued by the watchdog timer function, otherwise the NMI +watchdog — if enabled — can detect a hard lockup condition. stack_erasing |