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Ulrich Obergfell 195daf665a watchdog: enable the new user interface of the watchdog mechanism
With the current user interface of the watchdog mechanism it is only
possible to disable or enable both lockup detectors at the same time.
This series introduces new kernel parameters and changes the semantics of
some existing kernel parameters, so that the hard lockup detector and the
soft lockup detector can be disabled or enabled individually.  With this
series applied, the user interface is as follows.

- parameters in /proc/sys/kernel

  . soft_watchdog
    This is a new parameter to control and examine the run state of
    the soft lockup detector.

  . nmi_watchdog
    The semantics of this parameter have changed. It can now be used
    to control and examine the run state of the hard lockup detector.

  . watchdog
    This parameter is still available to control the run state of both
    lockup detectors at the same time. If this parameter is examined,
    it shows the logical OR of soft_watchdog and nmi_watchdog.

  . watchdog_thresh
    The semantics of this parameter are not affected by the patch.

- kernel command line parameters

  . nosoftlockup
    The semantics of this parameter have changed. It can now be used
    to disable the soft lockup detector at boot time.

  . nmi_watchdog=0 or nmi_watchdog=1
    Disable or enable the hard lockup detector at boot time. The patch
    introduces '=1' as a new option.

  . nowatchdog
    The semantics of this parameter are not affected by the patch. It
    is still available to disable both lockup detectors at boot time.

Also, remove the proc_dowatchdog() function which is no longer needed.

[dzickus@redhat.com: wrote changelog]
[dzickus@redhat.com: update documentation for kernel params and sysctl]
Signed-off-by: Ulrich Obergfell <uobergfe@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-04-14 16:48:59 -07:00
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acpi Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rzhang/linux 2015-02-19 11:28:36 -08:00
asm-generic OK, this has the big virtio 1.0 implementation, as specified by OASIS. 2015-02-18 09:24:01 -08:00
clocksource
crypto Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2015-02-14 09:47:01 -08:00
drm drm/ttm: device address space != CPU address space 2015-03-05 09:04:39 +10:00
dt-bindings USB patches for 4.1-rc1 2015-04-13 17:07:21 -07:00
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kvm KVM/ARM changes for v4.1: 2015-04-07 18:09:20 +02:00
linux watchdog: enable the new user interface of the watchdog mechanism 2015-04-14 16:48:59 -07:00
math-emu
media [media] media: atmel-isi: increase the burst length to improve the performance 2015-03-02 13:27:11 -03:00
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net ipv6: protect skb->sk accesses from recursive dereference inside the stack 2015-04-06 16:12:49 -04:00
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scsi libata-eh: Set 'information' field for autosense 2015-03-27 11:59:22 -04:00
soc pm: at91: Workaround DDRSDRC self-refresh bug with LPDDR1 memories. 2015-03-03 19:43:59 +01:00
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target target: do not reject FUA CDBs when write cache is enabled but emulate_write_cache is 0 2015-03-19 23:26:46 -07:00
trace Merge branch 'for-4.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/libata 2015-04-13 16:42:16 -07:00
uapi Staging driver patches for 4.1-rc1 2015-04-13 17:37:33 -07:00
video OMAPDSS: fix regression with display sysfs files 2015-02-26 10:23:15 +02:00
xen xen: Remove trailing semicolon from xenbus_register_frontend() definition 2015-03-02 10:38:59 +00:00
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