From 586692a5a5fc5740c8a46abc0f2365495c2d7c5f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mandeep Singh Baines Date: Sun, 22 May 2011 22:10:22 -0700 Subject: watchdog: Disable watchdog when thresh is zero This restores the previous behavior of softlock_thresh. Currently, setting watchdog_thresh to zero causes the watchdog kthreads to consume a lot of CPU. In addition, the logic of proc_dowatchdog_thresh and proc_dowatchdog_enabled has been factored into proc_dowatchdog. Signed-off-by: Mandeep Singh Baines Cc: Marcin Slusarz Cc: Don Zickus Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1306127423-3347-3-git-send-email-msb@chromium.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar LKML-Reference: <20110517071018.GE22305@elte.hu> --- kernel/sysctl.c | 12 ++++++++---- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'kernel/sysctl.c') diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c index c0bb32414b1..3dd0c46fa3b 100644 --- a/kernel/sysctl.c +++ b/kernel/sysctl.c @@ -730,14 +730,16 @@ static struct ctl_table kern_table[] = { .data = &watchdog_enabled, .maxlen = sizeof (int), .mode = 0644, - .proc_handler = proc_dowatchdog_enabled, + .proc_handler = proc_dowatchdog, + .extra1 = &zero, + .extra2 = &one, }, { .procname = "watchdog_thresh", - .data = &softlockup_thresh, + .data = &watchdog_thresh, .maxlen = sizeof(int), .mode = 0644, - .proc_handler = proc_dowatchdog_thresh, + .proc_handler = proc_dowatchdog, .extra1 = &neg_one, .extra2 = &sixty, }, @@ -755,7 +757,9 @@ static struct ctl_table kern_table[] = { .data = &watchdog_enabled, .maxlen = sizeof (int), .mode = 0644, - .proc_handler = proc_dowatchdog_enabled, + .proc_handler = proc_dowatchdog, + .extra1 = &zero, + .extra2 = &one, }, #endif #if defined(CONFIG_X86_LOCAL_APIC) && defined(CONFIG_X86) -- cgit v1.2.3