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| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/watchdog.c | 24 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/watchdog.c b/kernel/watchdog.c index d117262deba3..14bc092fb12c 100644 --- a/kernel/watchdog.c +++ b/kernel/watchdog.c @@ -3,12 +3,9 @@ * * started by Don Zickus, Copyright (C) 2010 Red Hat, Inc. * - * this code detects hard lockups: incidents in where on a CPU - * the kernel does not respond to anything except NMI. - * - * Note: Most of this code is borrowed heavily from softlockup.c, - * so thanks to Ingo for the initial implementation. - * Some chunks also taken from arch/x86/kernel/apic/nmi.c, thanks + * Note: Most of this code is borrowed heavily from the original softlockup + * detector, so thanks to Ingo for the initial implementation. + * Some chunks also taken from the old x86-specific nmi watchdog code, thanks * to those contributors as well. */ @@ -117,9 +114,10 @@ static unsigned long get_sample_period(void) { /* * convert watchdog_thresh from seconds to ns - * the divide by 5 is to give hrtimer 5 chances to - * increment before the hardlockup detector generates - * a warning + * the divide by 5 is to give hrtimer several chances (two + * or three with the current relation between the soft + * and hard thresholds) to increment before the + * hardlockup detector generates a warning */ return get_softlockup_thresh() * (NSEC_PER_SEC / 5); } @@ -336,9 +334,11 @@ static int watchdog(void *unused) set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE); /* - * Run briefly once per second to reset the softlockup timestamp. - * If this gets delayed for more than 60 seconds then the - * debug-printout triggers in watchdog_timer_fn(). + * Run briefly (kicked by the hrtimer callback function) once every + * get_sample_period() seconds (4 seconds by default) to reset the + * softlockup timestamp. If this gets delayed for more than + * 2*watchdog_thresh seconds then the debug-printout triggers in + * watchdog_timer_fn(). */ while (!kthread_should_stop()) { __touch_watchdog(); |