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Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2013 16:22:12 +0200
From: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
To: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/6] watchdog: Boot-disable by default on full dynticks
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On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 10:02:07AM -0400, Don Zickus wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 03:10:59PM +0200, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 01:03:16PM -0400, Don Zickus wrote:
> > > On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 04:02:36PM +0200, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> > > > When the watchdog runs, it prevents the full dynticks
> > > > CPUs from stopping their tick because the hard lockup
> > > > detector uses perf events internally, which in turn
> > > > rely on the periodic tick.
> > > > 
> > > > Since this is a rather confusing behaviour that is not
> > > > easy to track down and identify for those who want to
> > > > test CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL, let's default disable the
> > > > watchdog on boot time when full dynticks is enabled.
> > > > 
> > > > The user can still enable it later on runtime using
> > > > proc or sysctl.
> > > 
> > > I thought we had a conversation awhile ago, where we agreed this was going
> > > to be fixed for 3.11?  Didn't Peter find the patch and apply it to his
> > > tree?  I am confused why this is still needed?
> > 
> > We agreed on the patch but it hasn't been applied yet. I'm trying to get
> > a sane series of nohz patches before sending to Ingo.
> 
> Peter,
> 
> Where is this patch?

Which patch? The old version of the current one? It was part of a previous series
that needed improvements so it hasn't been applied yet.