Re: [PATCH 0/4] watchdog: address various races (CPU hotplug, timer expiry)

[Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>]

On Tue, Nov 03, 2015 at 04:20:57PM +0100, Ulrich Obergfell wrote:
> This patch set addresses various races in relation to CPU hotplug
> and a race in relation to watchdog timer expiry. I discovered the
> corner cases during code inspection. I haven't seen any of these
> issues occur in practice.

Series looks fine to me.  I have run some local panic tests with no
problems, along with modifying various values and everything seems fine.

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

> 
> Ulrich Obergfell (4):
>   watchdog: avoid race between lockup detector suspend/resume and CPU
>     hotplug
>   watchdog: avoid races between /proc handlers and CPU hotplug
>   watchdog: remove {get|put}_online_cpus() from
>     watchdog_{park|unpark}_threads()
>   watchdog: fix race between proc_watchdog_thresh() and
>     watchdog_timer_fn()
> 
>  kernel/watchdog.c | 20 +++++++++++++++-----
>  1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> -- 
> 1.7.11.7
>