From c6db67cda735d8ace5f19c3831240e1408679790 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Zijlstra Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 11:49:15 +0200 Subject: watchdog: Don't throttle the watchdog Stephane reported that when the machine locks up, the regular ticks, which are responsible to resetting the throttle count, stop too. Hence the NMI watchdog can end up being throttled before it reports on the locked up state, and we end up being sad.. Cure this by having the watchdog overflow reset its own throttle count. Reported-by: Stephane Eranian Tested-by: Stephane Eranian Cc: Don Zickus Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra LKML-Reference: <1282215916.1926.4696.camel@laptop> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- kernel/watchdog.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) (limited to 'kernel') diff --git a/kernel/watchdog.c b/kernel/watchdog.c index 613bc1f0461..0d53c8e853b 100644 --- a/kernel/watchdog.c +++ b/kernel/watchdog.c @@ -206,6 +206,9 @@ void watchdog_overflow_callback(struct perf_event *event, int nmi, struct perf_sample_data *data, struct pt_regs *regs) { + /* Ensure the watchdog never gets throttled */ + event->hw.interrupts = 0; + if (__get_cpu_var(watchdog_nmi_touch) == true) { __get_cpu_var(watchdog_nmi_touch) = false; return; -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2