Re: [PATCH] watchdog: Make sure the watchdog thread gets CPU onloaded system

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Thu Mar 15 2012 - 10:01:11 EST


On Thu, 2012-03-15 at 13:42 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> So unless there's concensus to remove everything but the hard
> lockup detection facilities, lets solve the technical problem at
> hand, ok?

Well, at least make it possible to disable the silly soft thing.

And I really wouldn't know how the soft thing could possible help,
except when not actually having a NMI watchdog. What case does it
trigger where the NMI one doesn't?
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