linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] watchdog: update documentation

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Date:	Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:34:07 -0800
From:	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...otime.net>
To:	Fernando Luis Vázquez Cao 
	<fernando@....ntt.co.jp>
CC:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, dzickus@...hat.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] watchdog: update documentation

On 02/08/2012 01:06 AM, Fernando Luis Vázquez Cao wrote:
> The soft and hard lockup detectors are now built on top of the hrtimer
> and perf subsystems. Update the documentation accordingly.


Correction:

+The period of the hrtimer is 2*watchdog_thresh/5, which means it has
+two or three chances two generate an interrupt before the hardware

                      to

+detector kicks in.



-- 
~Randy
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