[v2, 1/2] powerpc/watchdog: don't update the watchdog timestamp if a lockup is detected
Michael Ellerman
patch-notifications at ellerman.id.au
Fri May 11 00:06:37 AEST 2018
On Sat, 2018-05-05 at 07:25:59 UTC, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
> The watchdog heartbeat timestamp is updated when the local heartbeat
> timer fires (or touch_nmi_watchdog() is called).
>
> This is an interesting data point, so don't overwrite it when the
> soft-NMI interrupt detects a hard lockup. That code came from a pre-
> merge version to prevent hard lockup messages flood, but that's taken
> care of with the stuck CPU logic now, so there is no reason to
> update the heartbeat timestamp here.
>
> Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin at gmail.com>
Series applied to powerpc next, thanks.
https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/5a951c4e7e8df5d6df52bace1b4ff3
cheers
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