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Chris Metcalf fe4ba3c343 watchdog: add watchdog_cpumask sysctl to assist nohz
Change the default behavior of watchdog so it only runs on the
housekeeping cores when nohz_full is enabled at build and boot time.
Allow modifying the set of cores the watchdog is currently running on
with a new kernel.watchdog_cpumask sysctl.

In the current system, the watchdog subsystem runs a periodic timer that
schedules the watchdog kthread to run.  However, nohz_full cores are
designed to allow userspace application code running on those cores to
have 100% access to the CPU.  So the watchdog system prevents the
nohz_full application code from being able to run the way it wants to,
thus the motivation to suppress the watchdog on nohz_full cores, which
this patchset provides by default.

However, if we disable the watchdog globally, then the housekeeping
cores can't benefit from the watchdog functionality.  So we allow
disabling it only on some cores.  See Documentation/lockup-watchdogs.txt
for more information.

[jhubbard@nvidia.com: fix a watchdog crash in some configurations]
Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com>
Acked-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Ulrich Obergfell <uobergfe@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-06-24 17:49:40 -07:00
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bpf bpf: fix 64-bit divide 2015-04-27 23:11:49 -04:00
configs
debug
events Merge branch 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2015-06-22 18:57:44 -07:00
gcov gcov: fix softlockups 2015-04-17 09:04:08 -04:00
irq Merge branch 'irq/for-x86' into irq/core 2015-06-20 19:14:31 +02:00
livepatch Merge branches 'for-4.1/upstream-fixes', 'for-4.2/kaslr' and 'for-4.2/upstream' into for-linus 2015-06-22 16:26:56 +02:00
locking Merge branch 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2015-06-22 18:57:44 -07:00
power PM / sleep: Return -EBUSY from suspend_enter() on wakeup detection 2015-05-19 02:26:56 +02:00
printk TTY/Serial patches for 4.1-rc1 2015-04-21 09:33:10 -07:00
rcu Merge branch 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2015-06-22 18:57:44 -07:00
sched Power management and ACPI material for v4.2-rc1 2015-06-23 14:18:07 -07:00
time Power management and ACPI material for v4.2-rc1 2015-06-23 14:18:07 -07:00
trace tracing: Have filter check for balanced ops 2015-06-17 07:13:30 -04:00
.gitignore
acct.c acct: check FMODE_CAN_WRITE 2015-04-11 22:27:55 -04:00
async.c
audit.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2015-04-26 17:22:07 -07:00
audit.h Merge branch 'upstream' of git://git.infradead.org/users/pcmoore/audit 2015-04-22 14:49:23 -07:00
audit_tree.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2015-04-26 17:22:07 -07:00
audit_watch.c VFS: audit: d_backing_inode() annotations 2015-04-15 15:06:55 -04:00
auditfilter.c
auditsc.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2015-04-26 17:22:07 -07:00
backtracetest.c
bounds.c
capability.c kernel: conditionally support non-root users, groups and capabilities 2015-04-15 16:35:22 -07:00
cgroup.c cgroup: remove use of seq_printf return value 2015-04-15 16:35:25 -07:00
cgroup_freezer.c
compat.c compat: cleanup coding in compat_get_bitmap() and compat_put_bitmap() 2015-06-04 23:57:18 +02:00
configs.c
context_tracking.c context_tracking: Inherit TIF_NOHZ through forks instead of context switches 2015-05-07 12:02:51 +02:00
cpu.c cpu: Remove new instance of __cpuinit that crept back in 2015-05-27 12:58:39 -07:00
cpu_pm.c
cpuset.c kernel, cpuset: remove exception for __GFP_THISNODE 2015-04-14 16:49:03 -07:00
crash_dump.c
cred.c kernel: conditionally support non-root users, groups and capabilities 2015-04-15 16:35:22 -07:00
delayacct.c
dma.c
elfcore.c
exec_domain.c Remove rest of exec domains. 2015-04-12 21:03:31 +02:00
exit.c Remove execution domain support 2015-04-12 20:58:24 +02:00
extable.c
fork.c sched/preempt, mm/fault: Count pagefault_disable() levels in pagefault_disabled 2015-05-19 08:39:13 +02:00
freezer.c
futex.c Merge branch 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2015-06-22 18:57:44 -07:00
futex_compat.c
groups.c kernel: conditionally support non-root users, groups and capabilities 2015-04-15 16:35:22 -07:00
hung_task.c kernel/hung_task.c: change hung_task.c to use for_each_process_thread() 2015-04-15 16:35:22 -07:00
irq_work.c
jump_label.c
kallsyms.c
kcmp.c
Kconfig.freezer
Kconfig.hz
Kconfig.locks locking/qrwlock: Rename QUEUE_RWLOCK to QUEUED_RWLOCKS 2015-05-12 09:46:00 +02:00
Kconfig.preempt
kexec.c kexec: allocate the kexec control page with KEXEC_CONTROL_MEMORY_GFP 2015-04-23 16:52:01 +02:00
kmod.c
kprobes.c
ksysfs.c
kthread.c
latencytop.c
Makefile modsign: change default key details 2015-04-30 09:35:41 -07:00
module-internal.h
module.c module: Call module notifier on failure after complete_formation() 2015-05-09 03:29:24 +09:30
module_signing.c
notifier.c
nsproxy.c
padata.c
panic.c
params.c params: handle quotes properly for values not of form foo="bar". 2015-04-15 13:31:23 +09:30
pid.c fork: report pid reservation failure properly 2015-04-17 09:04:06 -04:00
pid_namespace.c
profile.c
ptrace.c ptrace: ptrace_detach() can no longer race with SIGKILL 2015-04-17 09:04:06 -04:00
range.c
reboot.c kernel/reboot.c: add orderly_reboot for graceful reboot 2015-04-15 16:35:23 -07:00
relay.c VFS: kernel/: d_inode() annotations 2015-04-15 15:06:55 -04:00
resource.c kernel/resource.c: remove deprecated __check_region() and friends 2015-04-15 16:35:22 -07:00
seccomp.c
signal.c signals, sched: Change all uses of JOBCTL_* from 'int' to 'long' 2015-05-08 12:04:36 +02:00
smp.c smp: Fix error case handling in smp_call_function_*() 2015-04-19 13:19:23 -07:00
smpboot.c watchdog: add watchdog_cpumask sysctl to assist nohz 2015-06-24 17:49:40 -07:00
smpboot.h
softirq.c
stacktrace.c
stop_machine.c sched/stop_machine: Fix deadlock between multiple stop_two_cpus() 2015-06-19 10:03:12 +02:00
sys.c x86/mpx: Clean up the code by not passing a task pointer around when unnecessary 2015-06-09 12:24:30 +02:00
sys_ni.c kernel: conditionally support non-root users, groups and capabilities 2015-04-15 16:35:22 -07:00
sysctl.c watchdog: add watchdog_cpumask sysctl to assist nohz 2015-06-24 17:49:40 -07:00
sysctl_binary.c
system_certificates.S
system_keyring.c
task_work.c
taskstats.c
test_kprobes.c
torture.c rcu: Convert ACCESS_ONCE() to READ_ONCE() and WRITE_ONCE() 2015-05-27 12:56:15 -07:00
tracepoint.c
tsacct.c
uid16.c
up.c
user-return-notifier.c
user.c
user_namespace.c
utsname.c
utsname_sysctl.c
watchdog.c watchdog: add watchdog_cpumask sysctl to assist nohz 2015-06-24 17:49:40 -07:00
workqueue.c workqueue: Reorder sysfs code 2015-04-06 11:16:04 -04:00
workqueue_internal.h