linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/3] watchdog: fix broken nowatchdog logic

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Date:	Tue, 18 Jan 2011 19:23:40 -0500
From:	Don Zickus <dzickus@...hat.com>
To:	Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@...il.com>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Stephane Eranian <eranian@...gle.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, stable@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] watchdog: fix broken nowatchdog logic

On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 11:37:44PM +0100, Marcin Slusarz wrote:
> Passing nowatchdog to kernel disables 2 things: creation of watchdog threads
> AND initialization of percpu watchdog_hrtimer. As hrtimers are initialized
> only at boot it's not possible to enable watchdog later - for me all watchdog
> threads started to eat 100% of CPU time, but they could just crash.
> 
> Additionally, even if these threads would start properly,
> watchdog_disable_all_cpus was guarded by no_watchdog check, so you
> couldn't disable watchdog.
> 
> To fix this, remove no_watchdog variable and use already existing
> watchdog_enabled variable.

These three patches seem reasonable.  I'll queue them up.

Thanks,
Don
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