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Message-ID: <YqsBN2qtjCkNtVM0@kroah.com>
Date:   Thu, 16 Jun 2022 12:08:55 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Sebastian Ene <sebastianene@...gle.com>
Cc:     Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Dragan Cvetic <dragan.cvetic@...inx.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
        maz@...nel.org, will@...nel.org, vdonnefort@...gle.com,
        Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>,
        kernel test robot <lkp@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 2/2] misc: Add a mechanism to detect stalls on guest
 vCPUs

On Thu, Jun 16, 2022 at 09:27:39AM +0000, Sebastian Ene wrote:
> This driver creates per-cpu hrtimers which are required to do the
> periodic 'pet' operation. On a conventional watchdog-core driver, the
> userspace is responsible for delivering the 'pet' events by writing to
> the particular /dev/watchdogN node. In this case we require a strong
> thread affinity to be able to account for lost time on a per vCPU.
> 
> This part of the driver is the 'frontend' which is reponsible for
> delivering the periodic 'pet' events, configuring the virtual peripheral
> and listening for cpu hotplug events. The other part of the driver
> handles the peripheral emulation and this part accounts for lost time by
> looking at the /proc/{}/task/{}/stat entries and is located here:
> https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/chromiumos/platform/crosvm/+/3548817
> 
> Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@...el.com>

The robot reported stalls on vcpus?

I think you need to fix this up...

greg k-h

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