Re: [PATCH] doc: admin-guide: remove explanation of "watchdog/%u"

2021-03-31 Thread Jonathan Corbet
Wang Qing  writes:

> "watchdog/%u" threads has be replaced by cpu_stop_work, 
> which will mislead the reader.
>
> Signed-off-by: Wang Qing 
> ---
>  .../admin-guide/kernel-per-CPU-kthreads.rst  | 20 
> 
>  1 file changed, 20 deletions(-)

Applied, thanks.

jon


[PATCH] doc: admin-guide: remove explanation of "watchdog/%u"

2021-03-15 Thread Wang Qing
"watchdog/%u" threads has be replaced by cpu_stop_work, 
which will mislead the reader.

Signed-off-by: Wang Qing 
---
 .../admin-guide/kernel-per-CPU-kthreads.rst  | 20 
 1 file changed, 20 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-per-CPU-kthreads.rst 
b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-per-CPU-kthreads.rst
index 531f689..5e51ee5
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-per-CPU-kthreads.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-per-CPU-kthreads.rst
@@ -332,23 +332,3 @@ To reduce its OS jitter, do at least one of the following:
kthreads from being created in the first place.  However, please
note that this will not eliminate OS jitter, but will instead
shift it to RCU_SOFTIRQ.
-
-Name:
-  watchdog/%u
-
-Purpose:
-  Detect software lockups on each CPU.
-
-To reduce its OS jitter, do at least one of the following:
-
-1. Build with CONFIG_LOCKUP_DETECTOR=n, which will prevent these
-   kthreads from being created in the first place.
-2. Boot with "nosoftlockup=0", which will also prevent these kthreads
-   from being created.  Other related watchdog and softlockup boot
-   parameters may be found in 
Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.rst
-   and Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.rst.
-3. Echo a zero to /proc/sys/kernel/watchdog to disable the
-   watchdog timer.
-4. Echo a large number of /proc/sys/kernel/watchdog_thresh in
-   order to reduce the frequency of OS jitter due to the watchdog
-   timer down to a level that is acceptable for your workload.
-- 
2.7.4