Re: [PATCH] powerpc/watchdog: Use hrtimers for per-CPU heartbeat

2019-04-04 Thread Nicholas Piggin
Gautham R Shenoy's on April 4, 2019 9:19 pm: > Hello Nicholas, > > On Tue, Apr 2, 2019 at 4:57 PM Nicholas Piggin wrote: >> >> Using a jiffies timer creates a dependency on the tick_do_timer_cpu >> incrementing jiffies. If that CPU has locked up and jiffies is not >> incrementing, the watchdog

Re: [PATCH] powerpc/watchdog: Use hrtimers for per-CPU heartbeat

2019-04-04 Thread Gautham R Shenoy
Hello Nicholas, On Tue, Apr 2, 2019 at 4:57 PM Nicholas Piggin wrote: > > Using a jiffies timer creates a dependency on the tick_do_timer_cpu > incrementing jiffies. If that CPU has locked up and jiffies is not > incrementing, the watchdog heartbeat timer for all CPUs stops and > creates false

Re: [PATCH] powerpc/watchdog: Use hrtimers for per-CPU heartbeat

2019-04-02 Thread Ravi Bangoria
On 4/2/19 4:55 PM, Nicholas Piggin wrote: > Using a jiffies timer creates a dependency on the tick_do_timer_cpu > incrementing jiffies. If that CPU has locked up and jiffies is not > incrementing, the watchdog heartbeat timer for all CPUs stops and > creates false positives and confusing