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