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The lockup detector reconfiguration tears down all watchdog threads when the watchdog is disabled and sets them up again when its enabled. That's a pointless exercise. The watchdog threads are not consuming an insane amount of resources, so it's enough to set them up at init time and keep them in parked position when the watchdog is disabled and unpark them when it is reenabled. The smpboot thread infrastructure takes care of keeping the force parked threads in place even across cpu hotplug. Another horrible mechanism are the open coded park/unpark loops which are used for reconfiguration of the watchdog. The smpboot infrastructure allows exactly the same via smpboot_update_cpumask_thread_percpu(), which is cpu hotplug safe. Using that instead of the open coded loops allows to get rid of the hotplug locking mess in the watchdog code. Implement a clean infrastructure which allows to replace the open coded nonsense. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@mellanox.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Sebastian Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Cc: Ulrich Obergfell <uobergfe@redhat.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170912194147.377182587@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Linux kernel ============ This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file. 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.