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> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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A periodic hrtimer runs to generate interrupts and kick the watchdog
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task. An NMI perf event is generated every "watchdog_thresh"
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job. An NMI perf event is generated every "watchdog_thresh"
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(compile-time initialized to 10 and configurable through sysctl of the
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same name) seconds to check for hardlockups. If any CPU in the system
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does not receive any hrtimer interrupt during that time the
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generate a kernel warning or call panic, depending on the
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configuration.
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The watchdog task is a high priority kernel thread that updates a
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The watchdog job runs in a stop scheduling thread that updates a
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timestamp every time it is scheduled. If that timestamp is not updated
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for 2*watchdog_thresh seconds (the softlockup threshold) the
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'softlockup detector' (coded inside the hrtimer callback function)
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