Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756887Ab2BHSeZ (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Feb 2012 13:34:25 -0500 Received: from oproxy8-pub.bluehost.com ([69.89.22.20]:55804 "HELO oproxy8-pub.bluehost.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1756342Ab2BHSeY (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Feb 2012 13:34:24 -0500 Message-ID: <4F32C01F.1020800@xenotime.net> Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:34:07 -0800 From: Randy Dunlap Organization: YPO4 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110323 Thunderbird/3.1.9 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: =?UTF-8?B?RmVybmFuZG8gTHVpcyBWw6F6cXVleiBDYW8=?= CC: Ingo Molnar , dzickus@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] watchdog: update documentation References: <4F323B21.7080003@oss.ntt.co.jp> In-Reply-To: <4F323B21.7080003@oss.ntt.co.jp> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Identified-User: {1807:box742.bluehost.com:xenotime:xenotime.net} {sentby:smtp auth 50.53.38.135 authed with rdunlap@xenotime.net} Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 728 Lines: 24 On 02/08/2012 01:06 AM, Fernando Luis Vázquez Cao wrote: > The soft and hard lockup detectors are now built on top of the hrtimer > and perf subsystems. Update the documentation accordingly. Correction: +The period of the hrtimer is 2*watchdog_thresh/5, which means it has +two or three chances two generate an interrupt before the hardware to +detector kicks in. -- ~Randy *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/