* Jeremy Fitzhardinge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I thought the timer code kicked the watchdog after waking up after a
> long sleep anyway? At one point I was looking into a mechanism to
> temporarily disable the watchdog during a wait for a timer event, but
> it got complex - and I thought - unnecessary.
>
> Specifically this in kernel/time/timekeeping.c:
>
> /*
> * When we are idle and the tick is stopped, we have to touch
> * the watchdog as we might not schedule for a really long
> * time. This happens on complete idle SMP systems while
> * waiting on the login prompt. We also increment the "start of
> * idle" jiffy stamp so the idle accounting adjustment we do
> * when we go busy again does not account too much ticks.
> */
> if (ts->tick_stopped) {
> touch_softlockup_watchdog();
> ts->idle_jiffies++;
> }
>
> Or does this happen on the sleep path? If so, wouldn't the right fix
> to be this on the wakeup path?
yep, i guess this would do the trick. David, could you try it perhaps
(let me know if i should make a patch for you).
Ingo
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