Wake up the watchdog every second instead of every second. If the current timestamp is bigger than the last touch, we are already (at least) a second ahead. Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner --- kernel/softlockup.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/kernel/softlockup.c +++ b/kernel/softlockup.c @@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ void softlockup_tick(void) now = get_timestamp(this_cpu); /* Wake up the high-prio watchdog task every second: */ - if (now > (touch_timestamp + 1)) + if (now > touch_timestamp) wake_up_process(per_cpu(watchdog_task, this_cpu)); /* Warn about unreasonable delays: */ -- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/