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commit f944ffcbc2e1c759764850261670586ddf3bdabb upstream. For systems on which the performance counter can expire early due to turbo modes the watchdog handler has a safety net in place which validates that since the last watchdog event there has at least 4/5th of the watchdog period elapsed. This works reliably only after the first watchdog event because the per CPU variable which holds the timestamp of the last event is never initialized. So a first spurious event will validate against a timestamp of 0 which results in a delta which is likely to be way over the 4/5 threshold of the period. As this might happen before the first watchdog hrtimer event increments the watchdog counter, this can lead to false positives. Fix this by initializing the timestamp before enabling the hardware event. Reset the rearm counter as well, as that might be non zero after the watchdog was disabled and reenabled. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/87frsfu15a.ffs@tglx Fixes: 7edaeb6841df ("kernel/watchdog: Prevent false positives with turbo modes") Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.