+ kernel-watchdog-modify-the-explanation-related-to-watchdog-thread.patch added to -mm tree

+ kernel-watchdog-modify-the-explanation-related-to-watchdog-thread.patch added to -mm tree

[akpm]

The patch titled
     Subject: kernel: watchdog: modify the explanation related to watchdog thread
has been added to the -mm tree.  Its filename is
     kernel-watchdog-modify-the-explanation-related-to-watchdog-thread.patch

This patch should soon appear at
    https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/kernel-watchdog-modify-the-explanation-related-to-watchdog-thread.patch
and later at
    https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/kernel-watchdog-modify-the-explanation-related-to-watchdog-thread.patch

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

The watchdog thread has been replaced by cpu_stop_work, modify the
explanation related.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1619687073-24686-2-git-send-email-wangqing@vivo.com
Signed-off-by: Wang Qing <wangqing@vivo.com>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Stephen Kitt <steve@sk2.org>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: "Guilherme G. Piccoli" <gpiccoli@canonical.com>
Cc: Qais Yousef <qais.yousef@arm.com>
Cc: Santosh Sivaraj <santosh@fossix.org>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 kernel/watchdog.c |   12 ++++--------
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

--- a/kernel/watchdog.c~kernel-watchdog-modify-the-explanation-related-to-watchdog-thread
+++ a/kernel/watchdog.c
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ __setup("nmi_watchdog=", hardlockup_pani
  * own hardlockup detector.
  *
  * watchdog_nmi_enable/disable can be implemented to start and stop when
- * softlockup watchdog threads start and stop. The arch must select the
+ * softlockup watchdog start and stop. The arch must select the
  * SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR Kconfig.
  */
 int __weak watchdog_nmi_enable(unsigned int cpu)
@@ -335,7 +335,7 @@ static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct completion,
 static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct cpu_stop_work, softlockup_stop_work);
 
 /*
- * The watchdog thread function - touches the timestamp.
+ * The watchdog feed function - touches the timestamp.
  *
  * It only runs once every sample_period seconds (4 seconds by
  * default) to reset the softlockup timestamp. If this gets delayed
@@ -552,11 +552,7 @@ static void lockup_detector_reconfigure(
 }
 
 /*
- * Create the watchdog thread infrastructure and configure the detector(s).
- *
- * The threads are not unparked as watchdog_allowed_mask is empty.  When
- * the threads are successfully initialized, take the proper locks and
- * unpark the threads in the watchdog_cpumask if the watchdog is enabled.
+ * Create the watchdog infrastructure and configure the detector(s).
  */
 static __init void lockup_detector_setup(void)
 {
@@ -622,7 +618,7 @@ void lockup_detector_soft_poweroff(void)
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_SYSCTL
 
-/* Propagate any changes to the watchdog threads */
+/* Propagate any changes to the watchdog infrastructure */
 static void proc_watchdog_update(void)
 {
 	/* Remove impossible cpus to keep sysctl output clean. */
_

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

kernel-watchdog-modify-the-explanation-related-to-watchdog-thread.patch
doc-watchdog-modify-the-explanation-related-to-watchdog-thread.patch
doc-watchdog-modify-the-doc-related-to-watchdog-%u.patch