doc: watchdog: modify the doc related to "watchdog/%u"
authorWang Qing <wangqing@vivo.com>
Tue, 29 Jun 2021 02:34:24 +0000 (19:34 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Tue, 29 Jun 2021 17:53:46 +0000 (10:53 -0700)
"watchdog/%u" threads has be replaced by cpu_stop_work.  The current
description is extremely misleading.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1619687073-24686-5-git-send-email-wangqing@vivo.com
Signed-off-by: Wang Qing <wangqing@vivo.com>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: "Guilherme G. Piccoli" <gpiccoli@canonical.com>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Cc: Qais Yousef <qais.yousef@arm.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Santosh Sivaraj <santosh@fossix.org>
Cc: Stephen Kitt <steve@sk2.org>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst

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@@ -1283,11 +1283,11 @@ This parameter can be used to control the soft lockup detector.
 = =================================
 
 The soft lockup detector monitors CPUs for threads that are hogging the CPUs
-without rescheduling voluntarily, and thus prevent the 'watchdog/N' threads
-from running. The mechanism depends on the CPUs ability to respond to timer
-interrupts which are needed for the 'watchdog/N' threads to be woken up by
-the watchdog timer function, otherwise the NMI watchdog — if enabled — can
-detect a hard lockup condition.
+without rescheduling voluntarily, and thus prevent the 'migration/N' threads
+from running, causing the watchdog work fail to execute. The mechanism depends
+on the CPUs ability to respond to timer interrupts which are needed for the
+watchdog work to be queued by the watchdog timer function, otherwise the NMI
+watchdog — if enabled — can detect a hard lockup condition.
 
 
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