Linux kernel mirror (for testing) git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git
kernel os linux

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/1619687073-24686-5-git-send-email-wangqing@vivo.com
Signed-off-by: Wang Qing <wangqing@vivo.com>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: "Guilherme G. Piccoli" <gpiccoli@canonical.com>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Cc: Qais Yousef <qais.yousef@arm.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Santosh Sivaraj <santosh@fossix.org>
Cc: Stephen Kitt <steve@sk2.org>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

authored by

Wang Qing and committed by
Linus Torvalds
256f7a67 e55fda8c

+5 -5
+5 -5
Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst
··· 1283 1283 = ================================= 1284 1284 1285 1285 The soft lockup detector monitors CPUs for threads that are hogging the CPUs 1286 - without rescheduling voluntarily, and thus prevent the 'watchdog/N' threads 1287 - from running. The mechanism depends on the CPUs ability to respond to timer 1288 - interrupts which are needed for the 'watchdog/N' threads to be woken up by 1289 - the watchdog timer function, otherwise the NMI watchdog — if enabled — can 1290 - detect a hard lockup condition. 1286 + without rescheduling voluntarily, and thus prevent the 'migration/N' threads 1287 + from running, causing the watchdog work fail to execute. The mechanism depends 1288 + on the CPUs ability to respond to timer interrupts which are needed for the 1289 + watchdog work to be queued by the watchdog timer function, otherwise the NMI 1290 + watchdog — if enabled — can detect a hard lockup condition. 1291 1291 1292 1292 1293 1293 stack_erasing