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From: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
To: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] watchdog: Disallow setting watchdog_thresh to -1
Date: Fri, 17 May 2013 09:06:14 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130517130614.GF78758@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51959668.9040106@huawei.com>

On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 10:31:04AM +0800, Li Zefan wrote:
> In old kernels, it's allowed to set softlockup_thresh to -1 or 0
> to disable softlockup detection. However watchdog_thresh only
> uses 0 to disable detection, and setting it to -1 just froze my
> box and nothing I can do but reboot.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>

Acked-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>

  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-05-17 13:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-05-17  2:31 [PATCH 1/3] watchdog: Disallow setting watchdog_thresh to -1 Li Zefan
2013-05-17  2:31 ` [PATCH 2/3] watchdog: Document watchdog_thresh sysctl Li Zefan
2013-05-17 13:07   ` Don Zickus
2013-05-28 13:32   ` [tip:perf/core] " tip-bot for Li Zefan
2013-05-17  2:31 ` [PATCH 3/3] watchdog: Remove softlockup_thresh from Documentation Li Zefan
2013-05-17 13:07   ` Don Zickus
2013-05-28 13:33   ` [tip:perf/core] " tip-bot for Li Zefan
2013-05-17 13:06 ` Don Zickus [this message]
2013-05-28 13:30 ` [tip:perf/core] watchdog: Disallow setting watchdog_thresh to -1 tip-bot for Li Zefan

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