Commit 256f7a67 authored by Wang Qing's avatar Wang Qing Committed by Linus Torvalds

doc: watchdog: modify the doc related to "watchdog/%u"

"watchdog/%u" threads has be replaced by cpu_stop_work.  The current
description is extremely misleading.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1619687073-24686-5-git-send-email-wangqing@vivo.comSigned-off-by: default avatarWang Qing <wangqing@vivo.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarPetr 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: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent e55fda8c
...@@ -1283,11 +1283,11 @@ This parameter can be used to control the soft lockup detector. ...@@ -1283,11 +1283,11 @@ This parameter can be used to control the soft lockup detector.
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The soft lockup detector monitors CPUs for threads that are hogging the CPUs The soft lockup detector monitors CPUs for threads that are hogging the CPUs
without rescheduling voluntarily, and thus prevent the 'watchdog/N' threads without rescheduling voluntarily, and thus prevent the 'migration/N' threads
from running. The mechanism depends on the CPUs ability to respond to timer from running, causing the watchdog work fail to execute. The mechanism depends
interrupts which are needed for the 'watchdog/N' threads to be woken up by on the CPUs ability to respond to timer interrupts which are needed for the
the watchdog timer function, otherwise the NMI watchdog — if enabled — can watchdog work to be queued by the watchdog timer function, otherwise the NMI
detect a hard lockup condition. watchdog — if enabled — can detect a hard lockup condition.
stack_erasing stack_erasing
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