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Message-ID: <20151105144600.GE209762@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2015 09:46:00 -0500
From: Don Zickus <dzickus@...hat.com>
To: Ulrich Obergfell <uobergfe@...hat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
atomlin@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] watchdog: address various races (CPU hotplug, timer
expiry)
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@...hat.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
>
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