* Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> wrote:
> thanks for tracking it down. Does the patch below help?
oops, that should be the patch below. Otherwise the watchdog kernel
threads will just loop around.
Ingo
---
kernel/softlockup.c | 9 +++++++--
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
Index: linux/kernel/softlockup.c
===================================================================
--- linux.orig/kernel/softlockup.c
+++ linux/kernel/softlockup.c
@@ -101,7 +101,11 @@ void softlockup_tick(void)
now = get_timestamp(this_cpu);
- /* Warn about unreasonable delays: */
+ /* Wake up the high-prio watchdog task every second: */
+ if (now > (touch_timestamp + 1))
+ wake_up_process(per_cpu(watchdog_task, this_cpu));
+
+ /* Warn about unreasonable 10+ seconds delays: */
if (now <= (touch_timestamp + softlockup_thresh))
return;
@@ -213,8 +217,9 @@ static int watchdog(void *__bind_cpu)
* debug-printout triggers in softlockup_tick().
*/
while (!kthread_should_stop()) {
+ set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
touch_softlockup_watchdog();
- msleep_interruptible(10000);
+ schedule();
/*
* Only do the hung-tasks check on one CPU:
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