Re: how can I touch softlockup watchdog on all cpus?

From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Date: Thu Mar 22 2007 - 18:47:07 EST


Cestonaro, Thilo (external) wrote:
> It's a condition of a customer of us, so I can't change it.
>
> But it happens not often that my part is used. So I thought there is a mechanism to disable or reset the watchdog
> because it is a legal pause for it. And there is one "touch_softlockup_watchdog()", that does what I want,
> BUT just for the current cpu. And so the watchdog blats from the other cpu.
>

on_each_cpu(touch_softlockup_watchdog, NULL, 0, 0)?

Or patch the softlockup watchdog to add a way to temporarily disable it.

J
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