On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 11:37:44PM +0100, Marcin Slusarz wrote:
> Passing nowatchdog to kernel disables 2 things: creation of watchdog threads
> AND initialization of percpu watchdog_hrtimer. As hrtimers are initialized
> only at boot it's not possible to enable watchdog later - for me all watchdog
> threads started to eat 100% of CPU time, but they could just crash.
> 
> Additionally, even if these threads would start properly,
> watchdog_disable_all_cpus was guarded by no_watchdog check, so you
> couldn't disable watchdog.
> 
> To fix this, remove no_watchdog variable and use already existing
> watchdog_enabled variable.

These three patches seem reasonable.  I'll queue them up.

Thanks,
Don

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