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From: Wang Qing <wangqing@vivo.com>
To: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>, Wang Qing <wangqing@vivo.com>,
	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>,
	Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>, Stephen Kitt <steve@sk2.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>,
	"Guilherme G. Piccoli" <gpiccoli@canonical.com>,
	Qais Yousef <qais.yousef@arm.com>, Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>,
	Santosh Sivaraj <santosh@fossix.org>,
	Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>,
	linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Lepton Wu <ytht.net@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH V2,RESEND 3/4] doc: watchdog: Modify the explanation related to watchdog thread
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2021 17:04:27 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1619687073-24686-4-git-send-email-wangqing@vivo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1619687073-24686-2-git-send-email-wangqing@vivo.com>

"watchdog/%u" threads has be replaced by cpu_stop_work. The current 
description is extremely misleading.

Signed-off-by: Wang Qing <wangqing@vivo.com>
---
 Documentation/admin-guide/lockup-watchdogs.rst | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/lockup-watchdogs.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/lockup-watchdogs.rst
index 290840c..3e09284
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/lockup-watchdogs.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/lockup-watchdogs.rst
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ in principle, they should work in any architecture where these
 subsystems are present.
 
 A periodic hrtimer runs to generate interrupts and kick the watchdog
-task. An NMI perf event is generated every "watchdog_thresh"
+job. An NMI perf event is generated every "watchdog_thresh"
 (compile-time initialized to 10 and configurable through sysctl of the
 same name) seconds to check for hardlockups. If any CPU in the system
 does not receive any hrtimer interrupt during that time the
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ does not receive any hrtimer interrupt during that time the
 generate a kernel warning or call panic, depending on the
 configuration.
 
-The watchdog task is a high priority kernel thread that updates a
+The watchdog job runs in a stop scheduling thread that updates a
 timestamp every time it is scheduled. If that timestamp is not updated
 for 2*watchdog_thresh seconds (the softlockup threshold) the
 'softlockup detector' (coded inside the hrtimer callback function)
-- 
2.7.4


  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-04-29  9:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-04-29  9:04 [PATCH V2,RESEND 1/4] kernel: watchdog: Modify the explanation related to watchdog thread Wang Qing
2021-04-29  9:04 ` [PATCH V2,RESEND 2/4] doc: watchdog: Delete the explanation about "watchdog/%u" Wang Qing
2021-04-29  9:04 ` Wang Qing [this message]
2021-04-29  9:04 ` [PATCH V2,RESEND 4/4] doc: watchdog: Modify the doc related to "watchdog/%u" Wang Qing
2021-04-29  9:29 ` [PATCH V2,RESEND 1/4] kernel: watchdog: Modify the explanation related to watchdog thread Petr Mladek
2021-05-09 23:29   ` Andrew Morton

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