Re: [PATCH] watchdog: Fix race on single cpu boot

From: Ulrich Obergfell
Date: Sat Aug 01 2015 - 09:06:33 EST



Don,

> Uli privately has been working on a patchset that cleans up a bunch of these
> race conditions. We believe it should cover this case. It uses the
> proc_mutex to synchronize everything.
>
> I think he is reaching out to you. If you could try his patchset to see if
> it fixes things, it might be a cleaner approach than what you are doing.
>
> <small time goes by>
>
> Ok, I was poked on IRC and you have already done this and it passed your
> testcase. Let me get Uli to post his patches. :-)
>
> Cheers,
> Don

I posted the patch set here:

https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/8/1/64
https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/8/1/65
https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/8/1/66
https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/8/1/67
https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/8/1/68

Regards,

Uli
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