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Ulrich Obergfell 195daf665a watchdog: enable the new user interface of the watchdog mechanism 
With the current user interface of the watchdog mechanism it is only
possible to disable or enable both lockup detectors at the same time.
This series introduces new kernel parameters and changes the semantics of
some existing kernel parameters, so that the hard lockup detector and the
soft lockup detector can be disabled or enabled individually.  With this
series applied, the user interface is as follows.

- parameters in /proc/sys/kernel

  . soft_watchdog
    This is a new parameter to control and examine the run state of
    the soft lockup detector.

  . nmi_watchdog
    The semantics of this parameter have changed. It can now be used
    to control and examine the run state of the hard lockup detector.

  . watchdog
    This parameter is still available to control the run state of both
    lockup detectors at the same time. If this parameter is examined,
    it shows the logical OR of soft_watchdog and nmi_watchdog.

  . watchdog_thresh
    The semantics of this parameter are not affected by the patch.

- kernel command line parameters

  . nosoftlockup
    The semantics of this parameter have changed. It can now be used
    to disable the soft lockup detector at boot time.

  . nmi_watchdog=0 or nmi_watchdog=1
    Disable or enable the hard lockup detector at boot time. The patch
    introduces '=1' as a new option.

  . nowatchdog
    The semantics of this parameter are not affected by the patch. It
    is still available to disable both lockup detectors at boot time.

Also, remove the proc_dowatchdog() function which is no longer needed.

[dzickus@redhat.com: wrote changelog]
[dzickus@redhat.com: update documentation for kernel params and sysctl]
Signed-off-by: Ulrich Obergfell <uobergfe@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-04-14 16:48:59 -07:00
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platform Documentation: Add list of laptop models supported by the Compal driver 2014-06-10 19:11:06 -04:00
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ptp ptp: restore the makefile for building the test program. 2014-10-24 16:07:10 -04:00
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s390 s390/docs: Remove section about script debugging from Debugging390.txt 2015-01-15 11:11:14 +01:00
scheduler doc: brief user documentation for completion 2015-01-30 11:19:25 -07:00
scsi genirq: Remove the deprecated 'IRQF_DISABLED' request_irq() flag entirely 2015-03-05 20:53:06 +01:00
security KEYS: Make /proc/keys unconditional if CONFIG_KEYS=y 2015-01-22 22:34:32 +00:00
serial serial: Fix locking for uart driver set_termios() method 2014-11-05 18:53:54 -08:00
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target Documentation/target: Update fabric_ops to latest code 2015-01-06 13:46:49 -08:00
thermal Documentation: thermal: document of_cpufreq_cooling_register() 2015-01-06 14:39:17 -04:00
timers Documentation: update .gitignore files 2014-09-26 11:02:59 +02:00
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usb usb: patches for v4.1 merge window 2015-03-24 22:57:49 +01:00
vDSO vdso: don't require 64-bit math in standalone test 2014-10-25 10:53:44 -04:00
video4linux MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE: fix some callsites 2015-02-13 21:21:40 -08:00
virtual Features and fixes for 4.1 (kvm/next) 2015-04-07 18:10:03 +02:00
vm mm:add KPF_ZERO_PAGE flag for /proc/kpageflags 2015-02-11 17:06:00 -08:00
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watchdog Documentation: use subdir-y to avoid unnecessary built-in.o files 2014-09-26 11:02:55 +02:00
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cachetlb.txt rmap: drop support of non-linear mappings 2015-02-10 14:30:31 -08:00
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clk.txt clk: Add rate constraints to clocks 2015-02-02 14:23:42 -08:00
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debugging-via-ohci1394.txt firewire: revert to 4 GB RDMA, fix protocols using Memory Space 2014-05-29 15:50:30 +02:00
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DMA-API-HOWTO.txt Documentation: correct parameter error for dma_mapping_error 2014-09-26 11:22:29 +02:00
DMA-API.txt DMA-API: Capitalize "CPU" consistently 2014-05-26 17:28:27 -06:00
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dma-buf-sharing.txt Documentation/dma-buf-sharing.txt: update API descriptions 2014-08-28 11:57:24 +05:30
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flexible-arrays.txt
futex-requeue-pi.txt doc: Fix misnamed FUTEX_CMP_REQUEUE_PI op constants 2015-01-19 12:05:32 +01:00
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highuid.txt
HOWTO Documentation: remove outdated references to the linux-next wiki 2014-10-28 09:06:11 -04:00
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IPMI.txt ipmi: Add SMBus interface driver (SSIF) 2014-12-11 15:04:11 -06:00
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IRQ-domain.txt irqdomain: Introduce new interfaces to support hierarchy irqdomains 2014-11-23 13:01:45 +01:00
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kasan.txt kasan: enable instrumentation of global variables 2015-02-13 21:21:42 -08:00
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kernel-parameters.txt watchdog: enable the new user interface of the watchdog mechanism 2015-04-14 16:48:59 -07:00
kernel-per-CPU-kthreads.txt
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kmemleak.txt Documentation: Add CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF case 2014-10-24 13:59:03 -04:00
kobject.txt kobject: grammar fix 2014-12-08 09:07:11 -05:00
kprobes.txt Documentation: add description for FTRACE probe status 2015-02-04 16:05:44 -05:00
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local_ops.txt percpu: update local_ops.txt to reflect this_cpu operations 2014-12-13 12:42:53 -08:00
lockup-watchdogs.txt lockup-watchdogs: Fix a typo 2014-08-26 09:35:52 +02:00
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memory-barriers.txt documentation: Fix smp typo in memory-barriers.txt 2015-01-07 08:59:32 -08:00
memory-hotplug.txt memory-hotplug: add sysfs valid_zones attribute 2014-10-09 22:25:52 -04:00
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nommu-mmap.txt fs: introduce f_op->mmap_capabilities for nommu mmap support 2015-01-20 14:02:58 -07:00
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oops-tracing.txt livepatch: kernel: add TAINT_LIVEPATCH 2014-12-22 15:40:48 +01:00
padata.txt
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phy.txt phy: improved lookup method 2014-11-21 19:48:50 +05:30
pi-futex.txt
pinctrl.txt pinctrl: clean up after enable refactoring 2014-09-04 10:05:07 +02:00
pnp.txt
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printk-formats.txt lib/vsprintf: add %*pE[achnops] format specifier 2014-10-14 02:18:26 +02:00
pwm.txt pwm: modify PWM_LOOKUP to initialize all struct pwm_lookup members 2014-05-21 11:19:36 +02:00
ramoops.txt pstore-ram: Allow optional mapping with pgprot_noncached 2014-12-11 13:38:31 -08:00
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rfkill.txt rfkill: document rfkill module parameters 2015-01-09 23:22:12 +01:00
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