linux-kernel - [patch 0/2] softlockup watchdog improvements

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Message-Id: <20070327053816.881735237@goop.org>
Date:	Mon, 26 Mar 2007 22:38:16 -0700
From:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	virtualization@...ts.osdl.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	john stultz <johnstul@...ibm.com>
Subject: [patch 0/2] softlockup watchdog improvements

Here's couple of patches to improve the softlockup watchdog.

The first changes the softlockup timer from using jiffies to sched_clock()
as a timebase.  Xen and VMI implement sched_clock() as counting unstolen
time, so time stolen by the hypervisor won't cause the watchdog to bite.

The second adds per-cpu enable flags for the watchdog timer.  This allows
the timer to be disabled when the CPU goes into a (potentially unbounded)
tickless sleep.

I know this conflicts with
fix-bogus-softlockup-warning-with-sysrq-t.patch in -mm2.  I think that
patch incorrectly changes the behaviour of the softlockup watchdog,
and a better solution is to temporarily disable the watchdog while
doing something known to be cpu-consuming, like a long sysreq output.

	J
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