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* [merged] doc-watchdog-modify-the-explanation-related-to-watchdog-thread.patch removed from -mm tree
@ 2021-07-06 19:08 akpm
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From: akpm @ 2021-07-06 19:08 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: corbet, gpiccoli, joe, keescook, mchehab+huawei, mm-commits,
	pmladek, qais.yousef, rdunlap, santosh, steve, vbabka, wangqing


The patch titled
     Subject: doc: watchdog: modify the explanation related to watchdog thread
has been removed from the -mm tree.  Its filename was
     doc-watchdog-modify-the-explanation-related-to-watchdog-thread.patch

This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree

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From: Wang Qing <wangqing@vivo.com>
Subject: doc: watchdog: modify the explanation related to watchdog thread

"watchdog/%u" threads has be replaced by cpu_stop_work.  The current
description is extremely misleading.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1619687073-24686-4-git-send-email-wangqing@vivo.com
Signed-off-by: Wang Qing <wangqing@vivo.com>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: "Guilherme G. Piccoli" <gpiccoli@canonical.com>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Cc: Qais Yousef <qais.yousef@arm.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Santosh Sivaraj <santosh@fossix.org>
Cc: Stephen Kitt <steve@sk2.org>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 Documentation/admin-guide/lockup-watchdogs.rst |    4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/lockup-watchdogs.rst~doc-watchdog-modify-the-explanation-related-to-watchdog-thread
+++ a/Documentation/admin-guide/lockup-watchdogs.rst
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ in principle, they should work in any ar
 subsystems are present.
 
 A periodic hrtimer runs to generate interrupts and kick the watchdog
-task. An NMI perf event is generated every "watchdog_thresh"
+job. An NMI perf event is generated every "watchdog_thresh"
 (compile-time initialized to 10 and configurable through sysctl of the
 same name) seconds to check for hardlockups. If any CPU in the system
 does not receive any hrtimer interrupt during that time the
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ does not receive any hrtimer interrupt d
 generate a kernel warning or call panic, depending on the
 configuration.
 
-The watchdog task is a high priority kernel thread that updates a
+The watchdog job runs in a stop scheduling thread that updates a
 timestamp every time it is scheduled. If that timestamp is not updated
 for 2*watchdog_thresh seconds (the softlockup threshold) the
 'softlockup detector' (coded inside the hrtimer callback function)
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from wangqing@vivo.com are



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